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Last week the proposition was put to vote. It passed by the whelming count of 230 to 30, with 50 not voting through abstention or absence. Many of Dr. Weizmann's anticipated opponents-orthodox Zionists, Laborite Zionists, radical Zionists-submerged their separate complaints to favor the central issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Zion in Zurich | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...happy man last week was Chaim Weizmann, goateed London chemist, president of the World Zionist Organization. Fortnight ago, when 322 delegates gathered in Zurich for the 16th biennial Zionist congress, he was less happy. For he was the appointed spokesman of a great project and in the bearded assemblage he saw many a gleaming, antagonistic eye. The project (in motion for six years) was the foundation of an All-Jewish Union, embracing both Zionists and non-Zionists, for the upbuilding of Palestine. "A Jewish national home, . . ." said Dr. Weizmann, "is no longer the concern of Zionists alone. It must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Zion in Zurich | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

This was Dr. Stephen Samuel Wise, Rabbi of the Free Synagogue (Manhattan) and ardent Zionist, who had had a disagreement with British Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the World Zionist Organization. The cause of the crack was to be found, at least partially, in Dr. Wise's eagerness to hurry the establishment of the Jewish Colony in Palestine as opposed to Dr. Weizmann's desire for less precipitous procedure. Dr. Weizmann is now in the U. S. to aid in securing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Wise Crack | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...prove that it is possible to contrive a detective story in which the criminal cannot be detected by a reader until the last chapter) ; Jinny the Carrier; The Melting Pot. He was once listed as the third most eminent Jew in the world, Einstein considered relatively the first, Weizmann, inventor of TNT and head of the Zionist movement, second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 9, 1926 | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

...moment, it seemed that the whole Zionist movement might disrupt. But, finally, after long nights of committee meetings, a guarded resolution was passed declaring Dr. Weizmann to be the moral leader of Zionists-and, by implication, if he care to be it, president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Faltering Sokolov | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

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