Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sipping water from a glass, champing a dead cigar, Winston Churchill flatly told Congressional leaders that Egypt would hold; Alexandria and Suez would be held. There was other reassuring talk. The Congressmen left, radiating optimism. Next day's headlines: ROMMEL 60 MILES IN EGYPT. Next day's: ROMMEL 100 MILES IN EGYPT. The Congressmen began to wonder...
Smith's pals include potent realtors and contractors in mushrooming Alexandria, Fairfax, Arlington, the jammed suburbs hard by jampacked Washington. Out of the 250,000-odd population of Smith's district, the trouble and expense of paying $1.50 to $6 in poll taxes keep all but a faithful handful of heelers from voting. (Smith represents the Eighth District, home of Washington, Jefferson, Madison...
...District Democratic committee decided that enough poll-tax payers (250 required) had signed a petition for the Aug. 4 primary to permit the candidacy of grey-haired, bespectacled Emmett C. Davison, 64, secretary-treasurer of A.F. of L.'s International Association of Machinists, onetime mayor of Alexandria, member of the northern Virginia draft-appeals board. In 1936 Davison was tried, acquitted on a charge of concealing assets in personal bankruptcy proceedings. He ran again for mayor of Alexandria, to vindicate himself, was badly beaten...
While Londoners raged at a distance, the people of Alexandria flew into a state of British calm. Said an A.P. dispatch from there: "Britons in Alexandria . . . are watching the enemy moves without alarm. Alexandrians dance on and are well supplied with food and drink...
...Mediterranean attack was part of a larger sea & air action. By heavily escorted convoys from Gibraltar and Alexandria, the British tried to get supplies into battered Malta and to the retreating Eighth Army at Tobruk (see p. 20). Italo-German warships, planes, submarines and torpedo boats grabbed their chance, tried to knock out the bulk of Britain's remaining Mediterranean Fleet. Thanks partly to Colonel Halverson's roving bombers, the Axis failed in its main objective. But the British lost heavily, were able to claim only a limited success in getting the convoy through...