Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part time. Others serve as specialists, like David K. Niles, a New-Dealing Bostonian inherited from F.D.R., who advises on problems of minority groups (currently, U.S. Zionists). At least one, Major General Harry Vaughan, holds a kind of honorary membership. Vaughan, who once burbled from the pulpit of an Alexandria, Va. church "I don't know why a minister can't be a regular guy," has one quality which endears him to the President: he is what Harry Truman calls a regular...
...Ambassador Joseph E. Davies & wife Marjorie (Post Close Hutton) took the long voyage home to Long Island. From Alexandria, Va. they went by yacht...
...householder in the Zizinia district of Alexandria, had fair assurance that the neighborhood wouldn't get run down. Moving in as next-door neighbor this week was ex-King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy-the old Adriatic neighbor who had had him evicted from his Albanian house & home...
...Mark first brought his gospel to Egypt, Christianity spread rapidly among the Egyptian fellahin, downtrodden descendants of the pyramid builders who took readily to a clear-cut doctrine of life-after-death. At first they had to flee into fortress-like monasteries to escape the persecutions of Hellenic Alexandria and the desert barbarians. Later pagan Alexandria too was converted, rivaled Rome as a Christian capital...
...Year for 1946 I nominate honest, fearless, and the most capable man in the U.S.-The Honorable Harold L. Ickes. F. B. GRIFFITH Alexandria, Minn...