Word: zionists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gift, a $250,000 clinic, given to Hadassah, international women's Zionist organization, is destined to serve all creeds and colors. Jerusalem's swart Arab Mayor Nashashibi spoke a few words in troubled English, thanked Donor Straus "for often having given to all people in Palestine help and comfort . . . thus creating friendship among Jerusalem's citizens." Great Britain's High Commissioner to Palestine, Sir John Robert Chancellor, spoke too, praised the Zionist movement which is in high favor in Great Britain...
Dedicating the clinic on the feast of the Passover was typical of Straus donations. Philanthropist Straus likes to commemorate festivals by gifts. On his 80th birthday last year (Jan. 31) he sent $100,000 to Jerusalem's Zionist leaders. His name is inevitably associated with milk. He has established milk stations throughout the U. S., conducted pasteurization campaigns in the U. S., Palestine, Great Britain, France...
...Einstein relativity manuscript is in the Zionist University in Jerusalem; other recent Einstein manuscripts have been purchased by London's Baron Rothschild, given to Berlin's Einstein Institute...
Today Mr. Rutenberg is chairman of the Palestine Electric Corp. with a paid capital of $5,000,000. The British government and the General Electric Co. took care of $2,000,000, and $750,000 was invested by the Zionist organization. The German Electric Corp. offered to subscribe $750,000, but thought better of it when informed that the "P. E," (Palestine Electric Corp.) would purchase all its equipment in Britain...
...present the "P. E." has put a small army of engineers in Palestine, to build dams, erect power stations and thus filch electricity from the biblical River Jordan. Since Pinchas Rutenberg is first and foremost a Zionist, the "P. E." is keeping a careful motion picture record of the Jordan "before and after." In so far as possible the engineering staff is kept 100% Hebrew, but Arabs are used for pick and shovel work...