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Word: jordan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edward H. Mahoney Shirley Carpenter, Newton Jack Torgan Edith Warren, Radcliffe GRAYS HALL Francisco J. Cardona Nancy Larson, Lasoll Donald B. Colo Nancy Todd, Wilmington John W. Ellison Ruthabeth Kreuger, Winchester Richard B. Fawcott Eleanor Downing, Waltham Bradley Fisher Dean Brinckerhoff, New Canaan, Conn. William E. Fuller, Jr. Barbara Jordan, Bancroft George H. L. Gerard Norma Chapiro, New York, N. Y. Howard R. Gleason Elizabeth Stearns, North Cohasset John W. Green Virginia Getz, Morton, Ill. E. Pierce Johnson Sally Chamberlin, Belmont Robert D. Kemble Sally Foss, Concord Ernest A. Mitchell Gerry Lux, Radcliffe Horace Morison, Jr. Grace Eddy, Boston Robert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 300 COUPLES TO ATTEND JUBILEE | 5/23/1941 | See Source »

...Trans-Jordan pro-British Emir Abdullah was reported shot and badly wounded by his son just as he was about to march into Iraq to help the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Door to Dreamland | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

Culmination came with the 800-place banquet, held like most Hollywood shindigs in the Biltmore Hotel Bowl. NBC played host. Master of Ceremonies Rudy Vallee presented Comedians Bob Hope, Burns & Allen, Fibber McGee & Molly (Jim and Marion Jordan), Bergen & McCarthy, George Jessel. He called upon NBC's President Niles Trammell, who ended by giving Benny two gold keys that would unlock any door in NBC's Manhattan or Hollywood headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: All Hail to Jack Benny! | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...which we believe to be complete." Now what happens to the convoy excuse of those who are willing to hang on to and exploit any rumor, no matter how vague and tenuous, in order to lead the people of the United States until they are checkmated into active belligerency? Jordan Whitelaw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 5/13/1941 | See Source »

...week's end all was desperately tense along the Tigris and Euphrates. In Trans-Jordan's capital city of Amman, Prince Abdul Illah sulked, conferred with General Nuri Es-Said. In Bagdad, El-Gailani played a close-to-the-chest hand of international poker, King Feisal played in the palace gardens beside the Tigris, Sherif Sharaf read the Koran. In London a weary Foreign Office profanely hoped that, since Britain could spare none of her armed forces to police Iraq, a diplomatic miracle might come to pass in the able brain of Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, the new Ambassador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEAR EAST: Trouble in Paradise | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

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