Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force cannot use Jewish men and cannot permit any Roman Catholic Chaplain to say Mass. [Saud is not] the kind of person we want to recognize in New York City." This Wagnerian fortissimo did not dampen the Navy's 21-gun salute for the monarch in New York harbor. But it did win Wagner the back of the hand from President Eisenhower at his press conference (see below...
...pacify the villagers, the Japanese government began to shower Uchinada with yen. The village got a new hospital, harbor improvements, an irrigation program, compensation for the fishing grounds occupied by the range and a gift of "consolation money." All in all, it added up to more than...
...children born during rainstorms. In Monaco's pink-walled palace, Princess Caroline Louise Marguerite, 8 lbs. 3 oz., uttered her first wail, set off a chain reaction including a radio broadcast by her nervous father, Prince Rainier III, 33, a 21-gun salute from two ancient cannon, harbor whistles, bonfires, street dancing and a torrent of free champagne. No longer would Monacans worry that Rainier would die without an heir, a catastrophe that might have eventually subjected them to France's high taxes and military draft as the prizes of a French annexation. After the easy birth, Princess...
Died. Commodore Adolf Ahrens. 78, German shipmaster who sailed his crack liner Bremen out of New York Harbor when he was summoned home (August 1939) just before World War II, painted the ship's superstructure grey, and ghosted the vessel at 32 knots through the British blockade (the British said they let it through); of a stroke; in Bremen...
...There Be No Moaning. In Penobscot Bay, Me., Harbor Pilot George Jennings steered the freighter Indochinois into open water, couldn't return to shore because of rough seas, moodily faced a round trip to France...