Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Palestine, he found a likely spot, staked out a 40-acre claim. On the surface were iron age remains, rather recent for the Holy Land. Below, the bronze age began. Father de Vaux believes that he may prove his city to be ancient Tirzah, first capital of the secessionist Kingdom of Israel, which Jeroboam split off from Judah after the death of Solomon about...
...Kingdom. From his headquarters in Dallas' 30-story Mercantile Bank Building, Leo Corrigan surveys a real-estate kingdom which extends from Shreveport, La. through Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio and down to the Rio Grande valley. In Dallas alone he operates 28 shopping centers, three skyscrapers, two apartment hotels, four suburban hotels and several hundred apartment houses. With his new buys, Corrigan's holdings are estimated at close to $79 million...
...Wilhelmina, which seemed to substantiate your error and TIME'S implication-that because of Tjarda's "flight" he had incurred the wrath of the Queen-creates a further erroneous impression. Tjarda was rewarded for his war services with one of the most important appointments in The Netherlands Kingdom, the post of Ambassador to France...
...more important is the continued indignation over Russia insistence upon keeping the veto power. Security Council control of disarmament with the veto intact has been stated to be "not good enough for the United Kingdom" and presumably is not good enough for the United States either. Without becoming entangled in the legalistic niceties of the veto question, it would seem that Russia's refusal to budge on this point does not stem from some dangerous plan of aggression but rather from her desire to maintain her sovereignty or nationalistic identity for want of a better policy. Similarly, the United States...
...last 55 Canadian soldiers on the Continent (except for 44 deserters) packed their bags and headed for England. The Canadian Army overseas, 286,387 strong at its wartime peak, was now down to less than 2,000 officers & men. Of these, 650 have asked for discharges in the United Kingdom (because they want to live there). The rest, said Ottawa, will be home by the end of January. Canada's military representatives in Europe after that: a handful of permanent officers...