Word: salem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert E. Rayle, Atlanta, Georgia; Robert B. Ross, Jacksonville, Florida; Kendall G. Russell, Worcester; Peter B. Scamans, Salem; Ralph M. Swanson, Winchester; Walter H. Trumbull, Jr., Weston; Mark Tuttle, Dover, New Hampshire; George A. Van Pelt, Sellersburg, Indiana; Vincent H. Vicario, Providence; Norman S. Walker, Jr., Peapack, New Jersey; Rolf C. Walther, Roselle, New Jersey; Francis deS. Woidich, Cambridge; and Richard W. Zamore, Montclair, New Jersey...
...deep Bricker platform voice, full of enthusiasm, platitudes and love of his fellow man, stirred crowds wherever he went. He was a man the people at whistle-stops could understand. He was the man for Fostoria, Ohio; for Shawnee, Hennessey, Pauls Valley, Upper Sandusky and Lower Salem. By the time he reached Oklahoma he was happily exhibiting two ten-gallon hats, a lariat, and a pair of spurs, gifts from the grateful citizenry en route. When a critic out front challenged his pronunciation he broke off and said: "Listen, I came off a farm in Ohio...
Days with Punch, Endicott Peabody was born in Salem, Mass, in 1857. His family tree was one of the oldest in the Commonwealth. One of his ancestors was Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Endicott, who hanged Nonconformist Quakers, but was the friend of Nonconformist Roger Williams. Another was Joseph Peabody, owner of one of Salem's finest East India fleets. When "Cotty" was 13, his father became a London banking partner of Junius Spencer Morgan, father of J.P. the First. From 14 to 19, Cotty attended Cheltenham College, preparatory school, where he became "tall, strong as a horse, graceful...
...with melodrama. In 1941 she remarried Cousin Emir Hassan. Her motive was patriotism, not love. She brought him and his fierce Druse tribesmen into the Allied camp, inspired him to help the British take Syria from the Vichy French. Then she got another divorce and another husband, temperamental Ahmed Salem, Egypt's foremost cinema producer...
Soon Ismahan and Ahmed Salem quarreled and parted. A fortnight ago the estranged husband came to his wife's villa on Cairo's Pyramids Road, fired several revolver shots, missed her, wounded a policeman, then turned the gun on himself. Doting Arabic cinemafans sighed with relief when they learned that their favorite had not been harmed. Last week the hospital reported that Ahmed Salem and the policeman were on the way to recovery...