Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock members of the Grand Council of Fascism, followed by the Italian Cabinet, all in Fascist trimmings & trappings, marched into the great room. Goat-bearded Marshal Emilio de Bono, recalled last autumn from Ethiopia under a cloud, was there. Chin-tufted Libyan Governor Italo Balbo had flown over from Tripoli to attend the party. Near him sat his Fascist twin, Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi, who had sped to Rome from London...
...Francisco and the conservative north for Merriam strength. "Poor Relation." Prime epithet used against Upton Sinclair is that he is "an agent of Moscow." Fact is, Upton Sinclair is as American as pumpkin pie. His great-grandfather Arthur Sinclair was a naval officer who fought in the war with Tripoli. Seven other seagoing relatives joined the Confederate Navy. His maternal grandfather, John S. Harden, was Secretary & Treasurer of Western Maryland Railroad. A sister of Upton's mother married John R. Bland, founder of U. S. Fidelity & Guaranty Co. and one of Baltimore's richest men. In Baltimore, Upton...
...Arab, shortly afterwards went to Arabia for 15 months among the Bedouins and Druses of the Arabian mountains. Sympathetically curious if not credulously enthusiastic about magic, he went to Haiti for a year to find out about voodoo. He has also visited whirling dervishes at their monastery in Tripoli, Yezidi devil-worshipers in Kurdistan. Tall, heavy of build and face, with near Hitlerian mustache, Traveler Seabrook looks hopelessly lethargic, is not. He says: "I am not brave. Only full of curiosity." Other books: Adventures in Arabia, The Magic Island...
With exception of the war with Tripoli, the U. S. Coast Guard has played a distinguished part in every national struggle since its inception in 1790 as the revenue cutter service. The sinking of its cutter Tampa with 115 souls aboard stands, with the exception of the Navy's lost collier Cyclops, as the largest single U. S. naval loss during the World War. Operating in peace time under the Treasury Department, the chief business of the 11,966 officers & men and 350 vessels of the Coast Guard is saving lives & property, not shooting 'leggers. They bring...
Italy's troubles in North Africa started in 1911 when, to forestall the territorial hopes of Germany and France, she declared war on Turkey and seized the province of Tripoli. The Turks were easily dispatched but not so the Senussi tribesmen of the interior. During the War, when Italy had no men to spare for Africa, Senussi tribesmen drove the Italians back to the coast and practically reconquered the territory...