President Calvin Coolidge has sent his greetings and best wishes to the Hakoah Soccer Team which is leaving the United States on June 2nd after an extensive tour of the country, through his secretary Everett Sanders.
The message was addressed to Benny Leonard, Chairman of the committee which is arranging a testimonial dinner in honor of the Hakoah Soccer Team tonight at the Pennsylvania Hotel prior to the team’s departure.
James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor, in his message to the Hakoah, gives expression to his admiration of the team. “I have watched with a great deal of interest,” the Secretary of Labor states, “both in the press and the moving pictures, the success that has attended this famous soccer team and its contests in the United States. I hope that they will continue to meet with the same well deserved success wherever they go.”
John Ciechanowski, Minister of the Republic of Poland in Washington, in his communication to the team, says: “I sincerely believe that in the realm of sports there is a great opportunity for building up better understanding between the peoples of the world, and the Hakoah Team has performed an outstanding service in this respect.”
The dinner in honor of the Hakoah Soccer Team will be attended by representatives of all groups in the New York Jewish community. Among the speakers will be Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Dr. Henry Moscowitz, Vladimir Jabotinsky and Mrs. Alexander Kohut.
MILWAUKEE EXCEEDS U.J.C. QUOTA FOR WISCONSIN
Raising and oversubscribing the entire quota for the whole state was the achievement of Milwaukee in its United Jewish Campaign, a statement from the national headquarters declared.
Wisconsin’s quota was $350,000 and this sum was subscribed in the campaign in Milwaukee.
Mr. S. D. Leventin, former general manager of the Anglo-Palestine Company, Jaffa, and director of the Jewish Colonial Trust, celebrated his 70th birthday in Jerusalem. He received many congratulations from his friends and co-workers. Mr. Leventin, who was born in Russia, was one of the first settlers in Palestine. He has published a volume of memoirs on Jewish colonization in Palestine.
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