Word: smyrna
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...slogan "Fascists of the World Unite!" In 1949, he stumped Hanover as a Neo-Nazi, won a seat in the Bundestag in the first West German election. This entitled him to a listing in the German Who's Who, which accepted his assertion that he was born in Smyrna, Turkey in 1911 (Smyrna's public records were destroyed by fire...
...dock for many days. Said one sailor "The man inside was lucky, for usually such crates are opened by the Burgas customs." The crate had been stowed away in the hold of the Palizzi. There it had remained as the little ship steamed through the Bosporus to Istanbul, Smyrna and Genoa where arrangements had been made to fumigate the hold. Said a sailor later: "It's a lucky thing the ship was late-too late for the fumigation. Otherwise the stowaway would have been dead...
...Democrats, headed by Banker-Politician Celal Bayar, had promised to free the Turkish economy from government control. This promise had won for them the support of Istanbul and Smyrna businessmen...
...Smyrna, Ga., the Rev. George Almiran Gaines, 34, announced that he was in the third week of a four-week fast. He hoped to attract attention to his campaign for $9,000 to finish making the down payment on a $66,000 mansion to be used as an orphanage. The mansion was once owned by former movie star Colleen Moore. Said Mr. Gaines: "I have fasted many times before. I have never fasted for anything that God has not given...
...since St. Polycarp of Smyrna came to see Pope Anicetus in the 2nd Century had Rome seen such a Mass. But more significant than the frequent bell-tinkling and strange, high, polyphonic chanting of the Armenian Rite were the Holy Father's words in a public speech next day: "In designating the eminent Patriarch of the Armenians to celebrate yesterday's Pontifical, we have desired to stress the solicitude and love which the occupants of Peter's chair have throughout the centuries shown Armenia and her people. . . . Be firm in your faith; do not allow yourselves...