Word: herod
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rogers Herod, president of the International General Electric Company, began the meeting by saying that the increase in manufacturing abroad has put the United States in great need for men in manufacturing abroad. There is just as much room for the intelligent job-seeker abroad as there is at home, he said...
...second speaker will be W. Rogers Herod, president of the International General Electric Company, Inc., who will speak on "Manufacturing Abroad." A graduate of Yale, Herod has been with G.E. since 1919, taking time out only for government work...
...matchless stained-glass windows tell the story of His coming. Each panel is a chapter: the annunciation to the Virgin that she is to be the mother of Jesus, the birth in the manger, the glad tidings to the shepherds, the star-guided Magi's visit to King Herod, the presentation of Jesus at the temple, Joseph's dream-warning of Herod's murderous plan, the flight into Egypt, and Herod's massacre of the newborn innocents...
...Putting China's Red masters well up in history's hierarchy of political purgers. Highest reliable estimates for Herod's slaughter of the Innocents, 20,000; Catherine de Medici's 16th Century massacre of the Huguenots, 50,000; France's 18th Century "terror," 30,000; Russia's Red Terror (1918-21), 50,000; Stalin's deliberate starving of Ukrainian peasants, 5,000,000, and Hitler's extermination of Germany's Jews (over twelve years...
During his long reign, Herod went up to Jericho to escape the damp, chilly winters of Jerusalem. Across the Jordan at Shuneh, King Abdullah still has a winter palace. But Professor Pritchard's discoveries suggest that not even modern royalty lives in comparable luxury...