Word: naming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mustached, kewpie-like face thrust aggressively forward, Gus Hall (real name Arno Gust Halberg), chairman of the Ohio Communist Party, sneered: "It sounds more like a kangaroo court than a court of the United States. I have heard more law and more constitutional law in kangaroo courts." Judge Medina ordered him to jail...
...Mole Hill, W. Va. (pop. 93) changed its name to Mountain...
Leopold is extremely eager to become again the King of the Belgians in fact as well as in name. He recently sent his and Astrid's daughter Charlotte on a triumphant tour of the country. Everywhere Charlotte was cheered wildly. But, said anti-Leopoldists, they cheered because they liked Charlotte and because she was Astrid's daughter, not because she was Leopold...
...Hawaiian blouse, who yelled into a microphone: "He's too old for the job." Shocked oldsters came to Chu Cheng's defense. Said one: "Chu Cheng can still climb the hundreds of stone steps leading up to Chungking." The argument availed nothing. When Marshal Yen's name was submitted, a legislator said: "The Kuomintang has scraped the bottom of the barrel...
...Yemenite Jews, now 45,000 in number, take their name from the corner of Arabia where they were cut off for centuries from the rest of Jewry. In their isolation they were not touched by the edict of famed Rabbi Gershom Ben Judah ("Light of the Exile"), who, around the year 1000, at a synod in Western Germany, banned polygamy for French and German Jews.* The Yemenites clung to the Old Testament rule of David (at least eight wives), Solomon (1,000 wives and concubines) and Herod (nine wives). Poverty has always limited the custom, and limits it sharply today...