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  <dc:title>Founders' Dinner, tendered by the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Publication of addresses and photographs at a dinner event celebrating 'an unforgettable event which served to advance the cause of science and of Jewish Palestine' [the establishment of the Weizmann Institute of Science]. Includes addresses by Robert Chambers, neurologist Israel S Wechsler, Justice Felix Frankfurter, Prof Herman Mark, Dr Louis F Fieser, Dr Stephen S Wise, Otto Loewi, Dr Joshua Loth Liebman, Edmund I Kaufmann, and Chaim Weizmann. Much discussion centres on the advancement of 'the Jewish cause' and the development of Palestine. Covers include newspaper articles on the dinner and the presentation of a cheque for 1 million dollars toward the establishment of the Institute.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>27 November 1945</dc:date>
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