Word: jordan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MACK J. JORDAN...
...defeat. Fat effendis in tasseled tarbooshes and doublebreasted business suits were streaming from Jerusalem in new American sedans that swayed under the load of rolled-up Turkish rugs and bundled household goods. Their escape route led past Gethsemane and Bethany to the Dead Sea, through Jericho, across the shallow Jordan by Allenby Bridge to Arab Trans-Jordan; then, past caravans of sneering camels, to the crowded, expensive hotels of Damascus and Beirut...
Radio Radcliffe--Mary O'Donnell '49, president; Nancy Buhrer '49, business manager; Ruth Breitenfeld '50, production manager; Mary Jordan '51, program director; Charlotte Child '51, technical director; Georgianne Davis '51, secretary...
...Varsity Club welcomes new football coach Art Valpey and assistants "Butch" Jordan, Davy Jones, and Elmen Madar this afternoon at 12:30 o'clock in the first such luncheon since the war. Others present will include spring head coaches Tom Bolles. Jaakko Mikkola and Dolph Samborski, as well as the captains of all major Crimson teams...
Last week Arab leaders flew to Amman, capital of Trans-Jordan, to talk to the one man most Arabs thought could save Palestine for them. King Abdullah said that he would lead his Arab Legion (10,000 men) and Syrian and Lebanese armies into Palestine by May 1. Said Jamal el Husseini, No. 2 man to Abdullah's old rival, the Mufti: "When we have won, the Legion will return across the border. Then we will hold a plebiscite to determine who will govern the new Palestine." Other Arabs were not so sure that, once he had taken...