Word: beene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The critics, like other critics during her 14-city tour, had mixed reactions. The Times-Herald found that "the fresh and brilliant luster of two years ago has been exchanged for a warmth and depth of tone that the music lovers found exciting." The Washington Post admitted some improvement but...
¶ Finally found someone to fill the important job of chairman of the Munitions Board, a post for which the Senate had refused to accept Carl A. Ilgenfritz because he would not give up his $70,000 salary from U.S. Steel. The nominee: Hubert E. Howard, 60-year-old Chicago...
Consul General Angus Ward hurried from a Communist people's court in Mukden, Manchuria last week to telephone the news to the nearest American diplomat, 400 miles away in Peiping. Ward and four members of his consulate staff had been freed from a Communist jail and were to be...
Americans enjoy nothing more than entertaining a king, but so many monarchs have been socially disqualified-either for thronelessness, chasing starlets or consorting with the nation's enemies-that there is seldom a chance to singe one with the full, hot blast of democratic hospitality. Last week, however, U.S...
The handsome Shah (full title: His Imperial Majesty Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, Shahinshah of Iran), a lean, sad-eyed young (30) monarch, might have been born & bred for the guinea hen & champagne circuit. He was a bachelor (having divorced beauteous Princess Fawzia of Egypt in 1948), had a gratifyingly deferential way...