Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, 400-odd researchers have worried the question: Who was the man called Christopher Columbus? Was he a nobody from Genoa? A royal bastard from Portugal? An imaginative pirate from Catalonia? Annoyed with the name Christopher Columbus, he called himself Cristóbal Colón ("Bringer of Christ-Repopulator"). What was his real name? He claimed he went to sea at ten. Others snorted that he was only a high-pressure promoter. Why was he so evasive about his past...
Month ago J. I. Mange, longtime president and chairman of Associated, stepped down, was succeeded by veteran Washington Lawyer Roger Joseph Whiteford. Mr. Whiteford, who makes annual lectures on the trial of Christ, was providentially reading a tome on the mathematics of the pyramid about the time Associated called. He was hired at $10,000 a month, but it was not certain whether he would get more than one month's pay. Unless RFC granted a $26,500,000 loan to Associated's sub-subsidiary NY PA NJ Utilities Co. (Nypan), unless SEC allowed Associated...
...sixteen-inch gun is the best Goddamned salesman in Christ's world...
...Snob. At Eton, Edward Wood made a scholastic record his father was proud of. At Christ Church, Oxford, he was equally studious in modern history. Unlike many a future British statesman, he took no interest in politics at Oxford. But in his schooling he acquired neither the snobbish "Eton manner" nor the equally snobbish Oxonian accent...
With this letter, sent also to the Rev. Dr. George A. Buttrick, president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, and Rabbi Cyrus Adler, president of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Mr. Roosevelt announced a significant appointment...