Word: zion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lawyer who wrote a satire on the dictatorship of Napoleon III. This book was rewritten by the anti-Semitic Russian secret police so that it appeared to be an outline of the methods by which the Jews hoped to conquer the world. Entitled The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, it eventually fell into the hands of a youthful, anti-Semitic "intellectual" named Alfred Rosenberg. He called it "a sign from heaven" and took it to Germany in 1918. Its program of "how to establish dictatorship with the help-and abuse-of democratic methods" later became, Heiden says, the basis...
...come to Houston from Manhattan's West End Synagogue only three weeks be fore the principles were adopted. But he stood by them. Said he: "If I had written the principles I would have made some changes. I endorse them in the main. . . . Our congregation does not oppose Zion ism. We simply do not participate...
Died. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, 72, shepherd of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion, virtual dictator for some 30 years of Zion, Ill.; in Chicago. He expected to reach the age of 120 on a diet of Brazil nuts and buttermilk, recently remarked that if he died before 1990 nobody would be more surprised than himself. He was best known to the world at large for his conviction that the earth is "flat as a pancake"-a belief he still held after a round-the-world cruise. In 1910 he got control of all Zion's real estate...
Whites in Salisbury, N.C. (pop. 4,000 Negroes, 14,000 whites) had not wanted Eleanor Roosevelt to come there to address a convention of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church of America. But last week Eleanor came just the same -her face aglow, her thoughts confused, her intentions motherly...
Tisha b'Av is also the day when the Jews of Jerusalem gather at the Wailing Wall, all that remains of the Second Temple, to weep and pray for Zion. This year Tisha b'Av in Jerusalem was more solemn than ever, for there was scarcely a Jew who could not hear in imagination, above the ritual wails, the clank of Rommel's tanks...