Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Albania an Italian province in all but name, and he has cast longing eyes southward. Should England step out in the interests of the rights of nationality, Mussolini could best ride the Mediterranean as easily as he has the Adriatic and plant the Italian colors over the forts of Alexandria and perhaps worse yet over the Red Sea towns beside the Suez. The mere conception of such a possibility would be enough to send Winston Churchill stark mad. So England is taking every step toward making Egypt a safe and strong imperial second line of defense...
...Alexandria...
Died. Stewart Johnson, 46, U. S. Charge d'Affaires at Cairo, Egypt; at Alexandria, during an operation following an automobile accident...
...modest scientist, he never signs his first name even to personal correspondence. Correspondents recall that given name as being "Felix." He was born in Montreal in 1873 ; educated in France. From 1901 to 1905 he was government bacteriologist in Guatemala. At present he is at Alexandria, Egypt, director of the bacteriological service of the Egyptian Sanitary, Maritime, and Quarantine Council. †A millicron is one one-millionth of a millimeter, or one one-thousandth of a micron, or one twenty-fifth of a billionth of an inch. *This is the basis of the argument for Ipana tooth paste as advertised...
...Queen Maud of Norway habitually walk about the streets of Oslo (the capital) completely unattended, sometimes even escape being recognized by their subjects for hours. King Haakon's elder brother, King Christian X of Denmark, adopts only a slightly greater reserve toward his subjects when he and Queen Alexandria drive about Copenhagen. At Stockholm, Queen Victoria of Sweden often amiably looks on while King Gustaf V plays tennis with Swedish army officers, or with almost anyone to whom he happens to have taken a fancy. Therefore, Scandinavian newspapers noted with calm approval last week that when H. R. H. Crown...