Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this city of strain Lord Lothian last week moved less like the last of the Ambassadors, presenting his country's desperate case, than like the spokesman of a cause that will never be homeless as long as the English tongue survives...
...arrival in France of 55 Leader Heinrich Himmler and his dreaded Gestapo agents behind Adolf Hitler's armed legions set thousands of Europe's wearied refugees and exiles on the march once again. Long the traditional sanctuary of the hunted, defeated and homeless, France had suddenly become a huge trap for hordes of domestic and foreign anti-Nazis...
...thousands besieged Spanish consulates in France for visas, numbers of Europe's homeless royalty hurried across the Franco-Spanish border before the Nazi invader. Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg and members of her family were among early arrivals, followed by Her Highness the Maharanee of Kapurthala. Already an exile, Polish Pianist Stanislao Nielziesld sought new refuge in Spain, as did famed Parisian Jeweler Pierre C. Cartier. Adrien Thierry, French Ambassador to Argentina, was more fortunate than French Leftist leaders who were reported to have found both Spanish and Swiss borders closed to them. (But an Italian broadcast said onetime...
...same family as Admiral Stark and Governor Lloyd C. Stark of Missouri. America must assist France immediately. Request full publicity and aid to homeless and desolate here as result of German savagery...
...staff of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Said famed Surgeon John C. Warren to his amazed colleagues: "Gentlemen, this is no humbug." Doctors soon took up anesthesia with enthusiasm, but forgot Morton. For a while, he went into partnership with Charles Jackson, a noted chemist and physicist, but finally, homeless and starving, he petitioned Congress for a grant...