Word: judah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from preventing aggression, the League had been unable as early as 1923 even to define it. Against Italy its only weapon, economic sanctions, had proved impotent in 1935. And in 1938, a comical figure instinct with tragedy, Haile Selassie, the Conquering Lion of Judah, stood before the Council at Geneva and heard his country voted a fair Italian conquest. From then on, death for the League was only a matter of creeping paralysis...
Haile Selassie, Conquering Lion of Judah, appeared to be in the chips. At Sweden's famed Orrefors Glass Works his coat of arms was being tooled on 676 crystal carafes and drinking glasses which would set back the black-bearded Negus...
...that our friend Haile Selassie is back on his throne as Emperor of Ethiopia, Power of Trinity I, King of Kings, Elect of God, Light of the World and Conquering Lion of Judah, he has renewed his TIME subscription and sent us a check for $38.90 so we can air mail the next 26 issues...
Small, dark Lewis Judah Ruskin was a drugstore stockboy in Chicago when his father gave him a cryptic warning: "You'll never be successful; ambitious men never are." Lewis shrugged, and set out to become the "General Motors of the drug and cosmetic industries...
...territory adjoining its frontier. That territory, Italian Somaliland, is now British-occupied- and Britain has its own ideas about the ownership of the strategic Red Sea littoral. The same day, the British Government made a formal presentation to Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, King of Kings, Conquering Lion of Judah: a sleek new Rolls-Royce limousine. Territorial claims could be discussed later...