Word: owned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congressman James J. Murphy, Staten Island Democrat, lolled expansively in a plush, flower-filled hotel suite far from home-in Madrid, of all places. Congressman Murphy beamed and waved a 10-in. cigar: "Wonderful people, these Spaniards. I am here absolutely on my own. I'm paying my own...
Britain's King George III once let his heavy Teutonic eyes wander sheeplike in the direction of a lovely, unpredictable minx named Lady Sarah Lennox. For political reasons he could not marry her, had to settle instead for a mousy, home-loving German princess, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Later...
Cheers for Honneybun. Last week they got both. As wedding bells rang out for royalty once again, sentimental London celebrated as it can only when romance is coupled with propriety. Two months ago King George VI, in answer (it was said) to the pleas of his sister, the Princess Royal...
The devaluation of the British pound also hit the Italian lira. The Italian cabinet had decided not to devalue the lira, which had already been drastically devalued two years ago, but to let it find its own level on a more or less free market. Forthwith the lira fell from...
A Medieval Touch. Bao Dai is gaining support. Many nationalists who in the past fought the French are joining him. They have come to believe that the French are sincere in giving Indo-China self-rule. By year's end, Viet Nam will run its own courts, finances, railways...