Word: naming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once he had got away, why had he given the ship's purser his right name? If he were being smuggled out by Communists in the vessel's crew, why had he even been reported as a stowaway...
...Formerly known as Shertok, which in his Russian mother tongue sounds like "little devil." The new name he recently adopted means "servant" in Hebrew...
Monteiro and Dutra told Vargas that he must hold an election. The dictator called in his Minister of War. "I can resign," he told Dutra, "or I can choose a candidate. I've talked to many people, and your name has constantly recurred . . ." "A great honor," Dutra broke in. Vargas, who had expected reluctance, was caught off balance. Thereafter, while he ostensibly supported Dutra's campaign, he actually sabotaged it behind the scenes...
...late Rabbi Stephen S. Wise got a memorial: the congregation of the Free Synagogue, which he founded in 1907, voted to change its name to the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue...
Leaving Berlin after four years, General Lucius D. Clay, commander of the U.S. occupation forces, got a parting gift from Berlin's city fathers: they voted to change the name of the street he lived on from Im Dol to Claystrasse...