Word: salem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After booming the circulation of Egyptian newspapers for the past two months, the trial of Ahmed Salem, biggest Cairo sensation of the decade, came to its quaint close last week. The sloe-eyed, romantic Egyptian public loves a love story. This one was dished up hot and fresh every morning in court when pomaded, silk-shirt-wearing Ahmed Salem's expensively gowned wife Amina rushed in and was permitted to embrace the prisoner passionately just as the judge was taking his seat. Ahmed stood accused of "bribery, forgery and perjury" in selling to the Egyptian police as hard steel...
...Ahmed Salem himself stood right up to the State, shouted in court that the Egyptian Government habitually indulges in bribery, forgery and perjury, so why should not Government contractors? He ridiculed the King's Prosecutor for demanding the death penalty, ingeniously argued: "The air-raid wardens and police will take cover during air raids and their steel helmets will not be needed anyway. So how can I be accused of treason or sabotage? By using iron, I was actually saving steel for other armaments. The Egyptian State really ought to commend my patriotic...
...also disclosed that Ahmed Salem had sought to flatter Egyptian royalty by designing special silver-rimmed helmets for young King Farouk and Queen Farida. Their Majesties' helmets were to have sported the Egyptian royal coat of arms "to facilitate identification in case either royalty became a casualty...
...other Seniors elected to the Class Day Committee, in order of their total votes, were: Francis M. Simpson of Oak Park, Illinois and Kirkland House, Sheldon Dietz of Brookline and Dunster House, John F. Brooks of Salem and Eliot House, Elliot L. Richardson of Brookline and Winthrop House, and, in a tie for sixth place, George H. Hanford of Cambridge and Winthrop House and Donald A. Donahue of Lawrence and Eliot House...
HARRY P. TAYLOR Winston-Salem...