Word: jordan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apart from the evidence that some Egyptians took it seriously, the Security Council had little to cheer about. During the week, Andrei Gromyko had blackballed the U.N. membership applications of Trans-Jordan, Eire, Portugal, Italy and Austria. He had blocked two more resolutions to do something about Greece. These Soviet gestures had required seven more vetoes (breaking all records for any week) and had raised the Russian total to 18 vetoes...
...Security Council Membership Committee was considering applications for admission by Eire, Portugal, Trans-Jordan, Italy and Austria (Russia was prepared to blackball all of them) and Albania, Outer Mongolia, Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria (which would run into U.S. opposition). The only prospective member nobody wanted to sandbag was Yemen...
...last they moved down Emigration Canyon to the Great Salt Lake, to a sagebrush Zion on the River Jordan flowing into the Dead Sea. The day after the first group arrived they diverted a creek for irrigation, and plowed. Under Young's relentless driving a city was laid out, farms established, dams raised, smithies, tanneries, crude flour mills set up. Young knew what the Mormons needed for survival: isolation and a chance to sink their roots. When the Mormons heard the news of the gold strike at Sutter's Mill, he cried: "Gold is for paving streets...
Where Everybody Meets. "The school's what held the community together," said Mrs. Floyd Jordan, whose husband is director of the school board. "There are two churches. Half goes one way; half goes the other. But everybody meets at the schoolhouse." The Jordans pay about $100 a year in school taxes (Waterloo gets no state support). They expect that their school taxes will be doubled now, but that wasn't what most worried parents: it was the thought of the long journey their children would have to make every day. "They're too little to wait...
Divided Labors. In a room near his office, from which he can look out over the plains of Jordan to the Dead Sea, Judah Magnes has placed two great filing cabinets, one marked "University Affairs," the other "Political Affairs." They are a sign of his divided labors. Still a pacifist and a longtime advocate of a joint Jewish and Arab Palestine, he has been attacked by extremists of both sides. Once his students went out on strike in protest against him; once Arabs set upon a car bearing two of his guests and killed the driver. But he has never...