At the opening banquet of the Keren Hayesod campaign here, $19,280 of the $50,000
quota was raised, as the result of an appeal by David A. Brown. The chief contribution was the sum of $5,500, by Emile Berliner, the noted inventor, of which he specified $5,000. should be applied to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Senator Spencer of Missouri was one of the speakers at the banquet.
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