Word: borning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...witness stand was Daily Worker Editor John Gates (born Saul Regenstreif), one of the eleven Communists accused of conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the Government. U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey had just asked him who were the authors of a pamphlet issued by the party's National Veterans Committee. He and others had prepared it, Gates answered. Who were the others, McGohey wanted to know. Gates flared up: "Those people work in private industry. I will not disclose their names and jeopardize their jobs...
...Boston business executive, who was studying art in Paris. The trio had hoped to find excitement in world citizenship; instead, they were wasting their young lives addressing envelopes. They agreed that a dramatic gesture was required to break the world's shocking indifference. A wonderful idea was born...
...King Is Useless." A complicating factor is Leopold's Bavarian-born, 72-year-old mother, Elisabeth, widow of the revered Albert and heroine of World War I. She has a habit of popping up in Brussels to dedicate Communist art exhibits, and was recently listed as one of the sponsors of the Communist "peace" rally in Paris...
...Bother!" Princess Margaret was not born a king's daughter, but even the weather on the night of Aug. 21, 1930 seemed to conspire with a sentimental people to give her birth a special glamour. A howling wind whistled around her grandparents' home, gloomy old Castle Glamis (rhymes with palms), where Shakespeare's Macbeth had long since murdered sleep and Duncan. Lightning flashed and the rain beat down. The announcement of the first royal child to be born north of the Tweed since 1601 was greeted by an ear-splitting squeal of bagpipes...
...performance as his guest? Rudi Bing said he would be delighted. Last week, operalovers the world over learned that Rudi had seen and heard more than Mozart's Marriage of Figaro at the Met. He had also seen and heard the beginnings of the hiring of Vienna-born Rudolf Bing by the Met as its new general manager...