Word: exoduses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Israel agreed to a semi-demilitarization (only small defensive forces, no airplanes) of the Israeli-Egyptian border. Egypt was allowed to withdraw from the famed Fa-luja pocket, and last week her half-starved troops, who had been marooned in the pocket for 20 weeks, began a joyful exodus, heads held high...
...Mahogany Exodus. Louis was a natural. He could blow clear and true, hitting the notes hard and clean. He never had to squeeze for a high one. But for three years after he got out of the Waif's Home (his mother got "a big white man" to spring him), he was too busy driving a coal wagon to blow a note. Then one night Bunk Johnson didn't turn up, and Louis sat in for him (for $1.25 a night) at Matranga's joint on Perdido Street; even the great Joe ("there...
...November 1917, with the U.S. at war, Storyville and jazz were handed a stunning jolt. At the Navy's request, New Orleans clamped down on the disease-ridden "District," put it permanently out of business. New Orleans witnessed an exodus unique in U.S. history. Hundreds of prostitutes streamed from their cribs carrying their belongings. Establishments like Lulu White's renowned Mahogany Hall (one of Louis' most prized recordings is Mahogany Hall Stomp) closed for good, and so did scores of "in mills and honky-tonks that had prepared a home for jazz music and jobs...
...Jews set about their exodus. Wrote a Spanish priest: "There was not a Christian who did not pity them." Dominican friars indefatigably tried to convert Jews and thus save them from exile. They burst into synagogues to preach the Christian gospel, but rabbis thundered back the teachings of Moses. Some Jews were converted. The majority preferred to leave their homes and their wealth behind. Many Jews removed tombstones from their cemeteries and took them along into exile. Their last ships left Spain the day before Columbus sailed for the New World...
...dangling the juicy bait of tax savings before other NBC stars, soon made off with Jack Benny. Bing Crosby, Edgar Bergen, Phil Harris, Fibber McGee & Molly, and Red Skelton were reported planning to join the exodus to CBS. This week the tax collector cut the gossip short. He had bad news for radio stars who would like to revise contracts...