Word: jordan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Majesty, Abdullah Ibn Hussein, British-crowned monarch of Trans-Jordan, his son, Emir Naif, and a suite of 16 ministers and notables, had traveled some 900 miles (via Turkish presidential yacht and train) to discuss the dream of an all-Moslem Orient. This would include Turkey, from which the Arabs broke away during World War I. One possible purpose: to serve as a road block to Soviet expansion in the Middle East...
...detail was spared to make the royal visit enjoyable. Official introductions over, Trans-Jordan's King and Turkey's President drove along Ankara's tree-lined main avenue, past granite Government buildings and cheering throngs to the presidential villa for a quiet evening of chess. Next day there were prayers at the Hadji Bayram Mosque and a state dinner at Premier Recep Peker...
...year, wholesale commodity prices moved up about 30%. It was uncontrolled cotton that made the headlines. Cotton, which sold for only 14? a pound in 1941, had climbed to 25? at the start of 1946. On Oct. 2 it hit 39.78?-then collapsed when Speculator Tom Jordan had to sell out his enormous holdings...
Plymouth: Best of Spirit, John Loves Mary: Opera House: Blossom Time. San Carlo Opera; Copley: A Young Man's Fancy; Schubert: Call Me Mister: Colonial: All My Sons; Tributary: Arms of The Man Macbeth; Esquire: Best Years of Our Lives; Jordan: Schwalb, Primus, Anderson: Symphony: Peerce, Pinza, Holmes...
...public meetings at the 21-nation Conference in Paris, Byrnes talked well and vigorously. On one occasion he cried: "I will sit here no more arguing whether the word should be 'and' or 'but' . . . haggling over commas and semicolons. . . ." A New Zealand delegate, W. J. Jordan, was similarly annoyed. He snapped: "I'm sick of listening to 'quack, quack, quack' hour after hour...