Word: judah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joseph Eggleston Johnston, who took over the army Beauregard left. "Small, soldierly and greying, with a certain gamecock jauntiness," Johnston was already smoldering with rage at Jefferson Davis over being placed fourth in a list of full generals. Ceremonious, bad-tempered notes passed back & forth. The Secretary of War, Judah P. Benjamin, maddened Johnston by going over his head in military matters and out-arguing him afterward. At one sore point, Johnston beseeched Benjamin to help "create the belief in the army that I am its commander...
There were the Lion of Judah's lions to admire, fearfully. Once the house was full of fine new furniture from London, which she helped to arrange around the rooms. She could peep in solemn satisfaction at court ceremonies under the yellow umbrellas, and at banquets when her father's guests dined from gold plates. Her Shamma (Ethiopian drapery) was a lot more comfortable than European clothes. In private crises there was the haven of her mother's great brown bosom. And, when she was 14, her father winked at tradition and allowed her to head...
They had need of her, she heard, in the village of Lekamti. Traveling with few formalities, Princess Tsahai, daughter of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, daughter of the Lion of Judah and the most modern of women in one of the last black kingdoms, went to Lekamti. There among the sick she fell ill, and there last week she died...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Henry Judah Mikell, 68, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Atlanta, Chancellor of the University of the South; of a heart ailment; in Atlanta...
...year pact which King of Kings Haile Selassie signed with the Brit ish Government bore little resemblance to Magna Charta. In return for $10,000,000 in cash, the Lion of Judah handed . the British a blank check. According to the agreement, British judges and assessors will sit on the benches of Ethiopian courts, the Ethiopian police force will be officered by Britons...