Word: 43rd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hummed with anticipation. The benches were packed tight, but on the government front bench no one sat in the place that in times past has been filled by Walpole, Chatham and Pitt, Wellington, Peel, Palmerston, Disraeli, Gladstone and Churchill. Then, in the middle of question time, Britain's 43rd Prime Minister quickly picked his way over the outstretched feet of his sprawling ministers and subsided into Churchill's seat. The House cheered...
...where a few practitioners of voodoo still do a lively business. Last week Tuskegee Institute presented a scene that was unknown in the Old South and is still unfamiliar in the new. Four hundred Negro and white doctors from all over the U.S. met on the campus for the 43rd annual meeting of the John A. Andrew Clinical Society.* Ignoring segregation, they lived in the same guest houses, ate at the same tables...
...only one in 50 U.S. Jews was identified with Reform a decade ago, one in every five is affiliated with Reform today, and the total membership is approximately 1,000,000 (Orthodox Judaism claims 2,000,000 members, Conservative, 2,000,000). This progress report was issued at the 43rd biennial Assembly of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in Los Angeles. Another major topic: Israel. What that country needs, said Rabbi Herbert Weiner (Temple Israel, South Orange, N.J.), is a relaxed form of Judaism like Reform. Rabbi Weiner urged a three-year experimental religious program there, including a "pilot...
...Appointment of the week: Lieut. General Blackshear Morrison Bryan Jr., 54, to succeed Major General Frederick A. Irving in September as the 43rd superintendent of West Point. A strapping Louisianan, "Babe" Bryan is a West Pointer (class of '22, and twice an Army football coach) was the tough but fair assistant provost marshall in charge of all P.W. camps in the U.S. during World...
Columbia swimming coach Ed Kennedy brings his 43rd Lion squad on a perfunctory 8 p.m. visit to the I.A.B. pool tonight and will undoubtedly lose to the Crimson for the 42nd time. In all his long career at Morningside Heights his teams have beaten the varsity only once, and that was a war-time victory...