Word: magnas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooklyn, where anything can happen, a street cleaner last week graduated magna cum laude from Brooklyn College. After a hard day's work in the gutters of Bensonhurst, bespectacled young Isadore Goldstein, 23, took off his whitewing uniform, put on cap & gown, marched up to Brooklyn College's commencement platform to take a B.A. and a graduate scholarship for proficiency in social science. Next day he went back to his street sweeping...
...Magna's Charta
...Pouch said that she had appealed to the Illinois delegation to see to it that the convention this year is not "lavish." Some of the delegates, said Mrs. Pouch, are even planning to wear old clothes. Added President Pouch: "We are going to emulate President General Mrs. Russell William Magna, who in 1931 wore only one eve ning dress and only one street dress during the entire convention." Watchword chosen for the 1942 convention: Courage...
...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...
Mexico's Padilla, whose early speech on "the free American" (TIME, Jan. 26) expressed the optimum hopes of the Conference, drew cheers again when he said: "This is not the time to defend material riches; this is the time and hour of sacrifice. . . . Let us sign the Magna Charta of united America in the midst of the gravest hour ever struck for magna chartas...