Word: zionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zionism gave the long distance telephone operators at Chatham, Mass., an unusual amount of switchboard plugging last week. Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis of the U. S. Supreme Court had just established himself in his summer home there, on the eve of the Zionist Organization of America's convention in Cleveland. The delegates at Cleveland were pondering and discussing his offer to return to active Zionism with his cohorts if the current regime headed by Louis Lipsky were ousted (TIME, July...
...front-from ultimatum to suggestion-caused the lengthy telephonings to Chatham. If holding the telephone receiver for long periods discomforted Justice Brandeis, he probably did not mind. For out of the calls resulted a compromise largely in his own terms and a regime which will guide U. S. Zionism until the next convention. Henceforth, provided no organization quarrels intervene, Zionist affairs in the U. S. will be controlled by 18 chiefs- twelve of them Brandeisites, six of them Lipskyites. Assisting them will be an executive committee of 40 (divided equally between the Brandeis and Lipsky factions) and a national advisory...
Forensics on such political troubles have continued vigorously the whole past year. They are properly an activity of World Zionism. Chaim Weizmann president of the World Zionist organization must handle them. Although they were to come before the U. S. Zionists at Cleveland, those zealots were more concerned with economics, economic leadership...
...when he conciliated a strike of Jewish garment workers, the misery of many Jews first struck him strongly He read up-slowly as is his habit-on their problems, joined the Zionists in 1912. Two years later the World War threatened to disrupt the work of International Zionism. He took command and put his economic principles to work in Palestine. The War situation of Zionism was a crisis. Justice Brandeis considered it an Ivry and was proud to boast, as he (erroneously) remembered King Henry IV (Henry of Navarre) had boasted to his Captain Crillon...
...religious economic and political foundations of Zionism a revival of Hebrew culture has been imposed. Except for arguments in what constitutes that culture it has little to do with Zionist conflicts...