Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have I done since I have been in power? In 1943 I gave the Moslems the right to vote. Isn't this already integration? Those who shout loudest for integration are the selfsame people who opposed this step then. What they want is for somebody to give them back Papa's Algeria. But Papa's Algeria is dead, and if they don't understand that, they will die with it. As for the word's political significance, what does it mean? That Algeria is French? Is there any point in saying so, since...
...Communist ties. Houphouet popped up in Paris, became French West Africa's leading champion of cooperation with France. Paris poured money into the Ivory Coast, and Houphouet himself, already a member of the French National Assembly, became the indispensable black man in every French Cabinet. His Marxist enemies back home pictured him as an "African Bao Dai," willing to sacrifice his people for the pleasures and prestige he enjoyed in Paris...
...somber, echoing burial cave, the King-elect, naked and unarmed, stood trial by ordeal. Surrounded by the dusty mummies of eight of his ancestors, Willie Samuriwo kept his solitary vigil two long nights to prove-by escaping animal attack-his right to be King. Outside, whispering, loinclothed sentries sent back word to waiting villagers that the fresh spoor of a lion could be seen at the mouth of the cave, and a lioness had been seen prowling in the vicinity during the night, but neither had molested Willie...
Assembled in the capital for a "Life with Father" luncheon at the Women's National Press Club and a visit to the White House, nine of the 20 living children of U.S. Presidents (plus other descendants of chief executives stretching back to John Adams) dropped some light-hearted footnotes to history. Among the Presidents subjected to filial gossip...
...favorite yarn about her portly (300 Ibs.) father and his much-lampooned girth. When Taft was Civil Governor of the Philippines and recuperating from an illness, he reassured Secretary of War Elihu Root of his recovery by cabling Root that he had just ridden 50 miles on horseback. Crackled back Root: "How is the horse...