Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...king means not to live one's own life as one wishes," said Carol, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen,"! prefer life to a throne. I have the same right to happiness as the milkman has." He was the first son of the reigning dynasty to be born on Rumanian soil and 101 guns had been fired at his birth in 1893. When his dominating mother, Queen Marie, conspired with Czar Nicholas II to marry him off at 20 to the Czar's eldest daughter, Olga, his reply was that he liked the Czar's second daughter, Tatiana, better...
DILLON S. MYER resigned as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. An agronomist for state governments and colleges in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. Myer went to Washington in 1934, serving with the AAA and then the Soil Conservation Service. After Pearl Harbor, he was given the tough chore of relocating West Coast Japanese. In 1946 he became Public Housing Commissioner, and in 1950 he took over the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs...
...that nice young man who sponsored the bill to unify Ireland. And tomorrow, or maybe the next day, St. Patrick will come back to finish the job he started. Sure, it was not enough to drive the vipers out while the lion still has her paw on Eire's soil...
Last week Magsaysay abruptly resigned. "I have reached a point where my continuing on the job would be futile," said Magsaysay. "It would be useless for me to continue . . . killing Huks as long as the Administration continues to foster conditions which offer fertile soil for Communism." To this, Quirino replied: "Magsaysay is getting too ambitious...
...Teheran and "have things out" with Prime Minister Mossadegh. Foreign Office diplomats persuaded him not to interfere. When negotiations bogged down, and it looked as if Iran might have to be written off, he began to rebuild Anglo-Iranian by rushing refinery expansion elsewhere-but not on foreign soil where it might be grabbed...