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Emperor Haile Selassie last week celebrated a great day in a career that has known many ups & downs. With golden scissors, Ethiopia's King of Kings, Lion of Judah snipped a ribbon and then drove triumphantly across a frontier to add to his domain the former Italian colony of Eritrea, which the Italians had carved out of old Ethiopia in the late 19th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: Lion's Share | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

Words to the Darkness. What happened next to Barabbas-whether he retired to the desert of Judah or joined the Samaritans or simply continued his banditry-Novelist Lagerkvist does not attempt to say.* But Lagerkvist does picture him in two final scenes. As an aging slave of the Romans, Barabbas meets a Christian whose piety nearly converts him-but when threatened with death by the Romans he backs out. No, he says, he has no god. It is true that he has inscribed the name "Christos Jesus" on his slave disc, but that is only "because I want to believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man Who Lived | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...honorary office, dating back to Sir Francis Bacon, which entitles a barrister to take precedence in court, prevents him from acting against the Crown without special royal permission. The first American to receive the title: British-born Judah P. Benjamin, onetime Secretary of State of the Confederacy, who fled to England in 1865, reclaimed his birthright as a British subject, and was made Queen's Counsel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Extraordinary Yank | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...JUDAH DICK New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1950 | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...JUDAH MACCABEE DEAD! ISRAEL COMMANDER FALLS IN BATTLE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: News of the Past | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

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