The 17th triennial convention of the National Council of Jewish Women opens here on Sunday in the Drake Hotel. The Council was founded in Chicago fifty years ago this month. Delegates from 215 sections of the organization in the United States and representatives of the Canadian section will attend.
The convention, which will be in session until Thursday, Nov. 11, will be addressed by Thomas Mann, noted German author; Earl G. Harrison, Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization; Dr. Caroline Ware, of the American Association of University Women, and others. The high point of the convention, which has been stripped of most festivities because of the war, will be the “Golden Anniversary Dinner” on Nov. 10, marking a half-century of service by the Council.
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