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...Malcolm explained, the X replaces "the white slave-master name which had been imposed upon my paternal forebears by some blue-eyed devil." With only a letter of the alphabet to serve as a surname, Muslims with the same given name add numbers before the X to keep one another sorted out. There is, for example, a James 67X. There are, however, Muslims with such surnames as Ali or Shabazz...
...first as Counsel of the President's Mediation Commission and then as Chairman of the War Labor Policies Board. In the thirties, Frankfurter was a close adviser of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and when Roosevelt became President, Frankfurter supplied him with bright young Harvard Law men to help staff the alphabet soup of New Deal agencies...
...interesting thought, but in the face of church opposition, few Italian politicians of any party are anxious to fight out the issue. As Rome Lawyer Ercole Graziadei wryly puts it: "The day will come when England will adopt the metric system and China will use the Latin alphabet. But Italy will still forbid divorce...
...life peerage and become Master of Cambridge's Trinity College. The Labor Party's Patrick Gordon Walker, disappointed loser in last month's by-election at Leyton, announced that he had also accepted a position in the academic world-as adviser to the Initial Teach ing Alphabet Foundation, an institution that promotes the use of a 44-character alphabet as an aid in teaching children to read...
...communicating in Hindi. In some areas they wrote most of their correspondence in English - retained as an "associate language" - but inserted verbs in Hindi. In Uttar Pradesh, a Hindi state, government offices faced a correspondence backlog for lack of enough typewriters equipped with the cumbersome 36-character Hindi alphabet...