Word: 114th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scientists who went there to look around for better jobs called it the "slave market." The official name was the 114th Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Cooperating Associated Societies...
George Stolz, Jr., of 520 W. 114th St., New York City, and a graduate of Williston Academy, Easthampton, Mass...
Through the cloisters of Cairo's Cathedral of St. Mark filed an excited swarm of sweating, portly pashas to elect a new patriarch, the 114th successor to St. Mark as Pope of Egyptian Christianity. Among the electors, for the first time, were both Egyptian laymen and swarthy delegates of the Ethiopian Coptic Church. The choice: Archbishop Anba Yussab, 63, whose flowing white beard gives him a proper patriarchal dignity. Ordained 40 years ago in a desert monastery founded by St. Anthony, he later studied theology in Athens,* was an abbot in Jerusalem during World War I, when he showed...
...enter Macy's, remained the scholar of the fraternal trio which also included (Idea-Man) Jesse, onetime U.S. Ambassador to France, and (Idea-Muller) Herbert. To gether they expanded the cash-policy business started by their grandfather with a china concession in Capt. R. H. Macy's 114th Street emporium, continued by their father Isidor (lost on the Titanic...
...Nashville department store. In Nashville, MacPhail met Luke Lea, who, at 38, had already founded the Nashville Tennessean and served as a U.S. Senator. When the U.S. entered World War I, Lea and MacPhail organized a volunteer regiment of back-country Tennessee mountaineers. Accepted by the Army as the 114th Field Artillery, they went to France, where they survived the St. Mihiel and Argonne offensives...