Word: membered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speech still treasured by collectors of political palaver. At one point, to establish Lucas' superiority over Henry Wallace, Kelly solemnly told the convention that Senator Lucas was "a member of no thinking group...
...Beard, A Red. The FBI man asks Santa if he has been "a member of the IWW, the IWO, the OWI, the Friends of the U.S.S.R., the New Deal, the Russian-U.S. Institute." Santa says he doesn't work for Russia-"they've got a man by the name of G. F. Frost." This, the FBI man learns regretfully, is not a spy but Grandfather Frost (Russian for Santa...
...Phone Call. The assassin, hustled off to jail, was a 21-year-old veterinary student named Abdel Meguid Ahmed Hassan. He was also a member of the Moslem Brotherhood, a fanatical religious-political organization, a million strong, of whom half are Egyptians. Nokrashy Pasha had won its sworn enmity. A few weeks ago a telephone call brought him news that the brotherhood had assassinated Cairo's police chief. As he put down the phone, Nokrashy paled and clutched at his heart. Promptly he banned the brotherhood, knowing that his action might bring about his own assassination...
...back home to Maryland's climate, "for every House was an infirmary." But in spite of fever and "vapourish qualms" he stuck it out, was elected to the legislature and married the daughter of Daniel Dulany the elder, one of Maryland's richest men. Wrote one member of Hamilton's ribald Tuesday Club to a fellow member then in England: "Poor Hamilton is gone-not dead, but married...
Kenneth C. Royall, Secretary of the Army, organized the group, which will be headed by James T. Byrnes, former Supreme Court Justice and Secretary of State. The group's first meeting early next month will be attended by Maj. Gen. Hanford Macnider '11, member of the Harvard Board of Overseers and former Assistant Secretary...