Word: weizmann
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government House. The central tribune contained many notables. Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, High Commissioner for Egypt, was there. He had been specially invited, as it was he who led the "ninth" or last crusade that delivered the Holy Land from its centuries-old Turkish domination. Others were: Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization; Grand Rabbis Dr. Hertz of Britain, Dr. Levy of France, Dr. Abraham Kuk, head of the Ashkenazic sect, Dr. Jacob Mead, head of the Sephardic sect. Behind, were professors of the University; to one side, were the consular representatives of foreign countries...
...Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization, debarked in Manhattan to spend three weeks in raising more money for the Zionist movement, the back-to-Palestine movement of the Jews...
...Weizmann came full of enthusiasm, rendering an optimistic account of developments in Palestine...
...Weizmann goes presently to England and will accompany Lord Balfpur to Palestine to open this university in April...
...corporation, inspired by Chaim Weizmann, world leader, was decreed by resolution at a meeting called in Manhattan by Louis Marshall, Cyrus Adler, Horace Stern, Herbert Lehman. The meeting called upon American Jews to invest between 2 and 5 million dollars. Securities will probably be offered...