Word: virginals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Disorderly Teetotaler. Like his contemporary, Benjamin Disraeli, Judah P. Benjamin was a sephardic (of Spanish-Jewish ancestry) Jew. Born in 1811 at Saint Croix, Virgin Islands, he became a U.S. citizen when his drygoods-vending father was naturalized at Charleston, S.C. At 14, Judah was the youngest man in his class at Yale, and a member of the teetotaling Philencratian Society. At 16, Judah was bluntly bounced out of Yale. Probable reasons: "association with a set of disorderly fellows who were addicted to card playing and gambling," theft, mysterious temptations "which he had not the moral force to resist." Judah...
...steel eleven days after Pearl Harbor. To meet Navy production schedules (for valve fittings, aircraft-carrier arresting gear, submarine net cable-guides), Mrs. Shofner deliberately overloaded her melting furnaces a full 100%. This was dangerous, but she put her faith in a skilled crew and a silver medal (the Virgin on one side, Christ on the other) sealed in the foundation of the furnaces. Said she: "God's on our side and anything that comes out of these furnaces fights...
...several years in Milan one Maria Miama has gone round telling rapturous tales of seeing the Blessed Virgin, getting messages from...
...funds provided therein should be used to pay the salaries of three men called "radicals" by the Dies committee. In effect, unable to have-at the President, the House was trying to knock off three small-fry New Dealers. One was Robert Morss Lovett, 72, Government Secretary of the Virgin Islands, oldtime liberal, war horse of pacifism, longtime English professor at the University of Chicago.* The other two were FCC employes: Psychology Professor Goodwin B. Watson of Columbia and William E. Dodd Jr., son of the late Ambassador to Germany...
...president, has good reason to regard it as a war baby too, since his two-year-old plant in New Jersey is 95% engaged on Government contracts. Urbane, hawk-nosed, 61-year-old Sosthenes, who got his name from the Greek word meaning "life strength," was born in the Virgin Islands, of French and Danish parents. Schooled in Corsica and Paris, at 19 he was an up-&-coming banker in Manhattan, grew a luxuriant beard to disguise his youth. While on a trip to Puerto Rico the local telephone company almost fell into his lap. He went into the telephone...