Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thin, stooped, flop-eared Howard Worth Smith sits in big, comfortable chairs, and nobody puts even a small tack in them. Nobody could. As president of the Alexandria (Va.) National Bank, as owner of a money-making Virginia dairy farm, as organized labor's hair shirt in Congress, the 59-year-old Alexandrian serves what Virginians call The Organization -the "courthouse crowd" machine of Senator Harry F. Byrd...
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Captain Randolph Churchill, son of the Prime Minister, was hospitalized with bruises after an auto accident near Alexandria, Egypt...
...exchange strictly man for man. (By the Geneva Convention of 1929, belligerents are required to return home seriously wounded prisoners, regardless of man-for-man exchange.) Italy knew better than to make such a demand-she was to get back more prisoners than she gave up. Off to Alexandria sailed 66 stricken British soldiers, 63 medical personnel captured in Greece; to Italy went 250 sick and wounded Italians captured in Ethiopia and East Africa...
When Mustafa El Nahas Pasha became Premier in February, he asked Aly Maher Pasha to keep to his estate, "The Green Castle," near Alexandria. Aly Maher Pasha soon turned up in the Parliament lobbies in Cairo. Inside Parliament he was immune from arrest, but when he left the building one day last week the police nabbed...