Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the President: ¶ Sent the Senate a list of 119 nominations, nearly all of them appointed during the congressional recess. Topping the list were Chief Justice Earl Warren and Labor Secretary James Mitchell. ¶ Announced that Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia would visit him in May. ¶ Wrote a letter to the Associated Press's Ernest ("Tony") Vaccaro on the occasion of his election as president of the National Press Club. As an "elected official," Ike wrote, Vaccaro must realize that the members would demand a program for reducing dues while balancing the club budget and providing...
...Ethiopia, landlocked until 1952, when it got two big ports in Eritrea through federation, will soon have the start of a merchant fleet. A Dutch shipbuilding firm has orders for four seagoing tugboats...
During World War II, pug-nosed, Australian-born Stanley ("Davo") Davidson and scar-faced Dedan Kimathi served together in Ethiopia as members of the King's African Rifles. When the war was over, Davidson returned to bored peacefulness in Sydney. Kimathi, a onetime Kikuyu schoolteacher, went on to become the almost legendary "General Russia," fiercest chieftain of Kenya's bloodthirsty Mau Man terrorists...
Born. To Crown Prince Asfa Wassan of Ethiopia, 37, and Crown Princess Medferiash Worq Abbebe, 30: their third child, first son, Emperor Haile Selassie's twelfth grandchild, second in line of succession to the throne. Name: to be announced, according to Ethiopian Coptic Orthodox custom, 40 days after birth. Weight...
...Ambassador to Ethiopia: Dr. Joseph Simonson, 49, a Lutheran clergyman from Glen Cove...