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Hadassah Raises $50,000 in Chicago Toward Ujp.a

March 15, 1928
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(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Fifty thousand dollars was raised by the Hadassah women’s Zionist organization, at a luncheon yesterday attended by 1,000 members of the Chicago chapter who paid $50 a plate. The sum is part of the chapter’s quota of ?67,500 in the United Palestine Appeal.

Mrs. Israel Balaban defrayed the expenses of the luncheon. Mrs. Julius Rosenwald, who purchased a bloc of 20 tickets, was present. The principal address was delivered

by Mrs. Irma L. Lindheim president of Haddassah. Other speakers were Miss Pearl Franklin, president of the Chicago chapter, who presided, Max Shulman, president of the Zionist District of Chicago, and Mrs. Harry Berkman 100 Jews in Hungarian Kossuth Delegation

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