Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee insisted that the boss could well afford the increase, the boss called the cops, had the committeemen ejected from the premises. Nobody invoked the Wagner Act. The committeemen were monks, the boss was the abbott of the ancient Coptic Christian monastery of Moharrak, 250 miles south of Cairo...
Died. Princess Chevikiar Ibrahim*,72, great-granddaughter of Mohamed Ali (founder of Egypt's modern royal dynasty), cousin of King Farouk and first wife of his father (the late King Fuad, whom she divorced while he was still Crown Prince), grande dame of Cairo society, authoress, philanthropist, five-times-married suffragist leader; in Cairo...
Music-lovers at Cairo's Opera House had trouble paying attention to the stage. Ablaze in a box were King Farouk's beauteous sisters Fawzia (Queen of Iran) and Faiza, looking, respectively, like the Dragon Lady and a Hudson's Bay Co. advertisement...
...India. They had come to ask how much of a ?1,250,000,000 debt could be written off, and what the terms for the rest would be. On the way home they will stop at Bagdad, where more than ?100,000,000 is due Iraq; then on to Cairo to talk about the ?450,000,000 owing to Egyptians. The two may also visit Palestine, where the debt already tops ?130,000,000 and keeps increasing as long as British troops remain...
...Laubach, inventor of the each-one-teach-one method. A Congregationalist missionary who went directly to the Philippines from his studies at Princeton and Columbia, he has spent more than 30 years teaching millions of illiterates, from India to Ecuador, to read & write their own languages. Now in Cairo, Dr. Laubach will set up literacy charts in 20 languages and dialects to keep the each-one-teach-one ball rolling through Africa...