(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
Tremendous impetus was given to the opening of the United Palestine Appeal in Baltimore to raise $150,000 of the $7,500,000 goal for 1927 by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization, who addressed 1,000 persons attending the banquet at which the drive was launched.
Jacob Epstein presided at the dinner. Mrs. Archibald Silverman of Providence, R. I., National Vice President of Hadassah, the women Zionists’ national organization, also spoke.
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