The World’s Fair announced today that it had postponed a party for the 30,000 Fair employes, previously scheduled for September 7, the first day of the Jewish New Year, to an unspecified date in October.
The American Jewish Congress had protested the scheduling as unfair to the many Jewish employes at the Fair. Today the AJC expressed gratification over the new decision by the World’s Fair authorities.
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