Word: louise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As first governor of its new protectorate, the French sent the revered Marshal Louis Hubert Lyautey to Morocco. Lyautey's policy: "Do not offend a single tradition or change a single habit." He ordered French towns built alongside but separate from the Moroccan towns, put all mosques off limits...
Canadian voters, who have long anticipated a general election this spring, finally got a date. The Liberal government headed by Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent last week wound up its business in the House of Commons, dissolved Parliament, called an election for June 10.
The Liberals, the New York Yankees of Canadian politics, controlled 167 of the House of Commons' 265 seats at dissolution, rank as odds-on favorite to stretch their 21-year rule by another four-or five-year term. They are presiding over an economy throbbing with prosperity and boasting...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Writer Rufus Terral examined the mixture of metaphor that streamed out of President Eisenhower's press conference last week, grasped his pencil like a sword and fired this broadside of ironic gripeshot:
All through the long professional basketball season, the Boston Celtics had lost to the St. Louis Hawks only twice-each time by only two points. Starting the playoffs for the National Basketball Association championship, they seemed to be sticking to the same pattern: St. Louis won in double overtime, 125...