Word: owned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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If they won a majority, either in their own right or with the help of dissident pro-Leopold Liberals, the Catholics promised to call for a popular "advisory" referendum on the royal question. No one seemed to doubt that Leopold would get a majority in such a plebiscite.
Islam's missionaries to Holland, however, have not had easy going. First schooled in their own soft Urdu, they had to learn the harsh Dutch language. Then they tirelessly passed out leaflets (20,000 a year) at big city railroad stations, beaches and among downtown shopping crowds.
The first noteworthy member of the Torlonia family (which came from France to Italy in the 18th Century) was Giovanni, a rag & bone merchant who became one of Europe's greatest financiers, lent money to kings and even to Napoleon's high-living kin. He bought a couple...
Last Sunday the young prince, accompanied by his two sisters, left the family pew at Rome's quiet little Church of St. Girolamo. Pierino appeared, a pistol in his outstretched hand. "You die!" he shouted, and fired five times. The prince drew his own pistol, but before he could...
The commission sees little chance of a sharp birthrate decline, believes that Britain's present 49 million population will drop only to 45½ million by 2050. The commission does not regard this prospect as calamitous. To the neo-Malthusians, who assert that the world population is outrunning its...