Word: angola
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. James Monroe Smith, 60, onetime $18,000-a-year president of Louisiana State University, whose resignation in 1939 disclosed widespread corruption and graft in the Huey P. Long political machine; after a heart attack; in Angola, La. Plucked from obscurity by Huey ("[I'm] the Chief Thief for L.S.U.") Long to head his pet college, Smith helped his mentor (and Huey's political heir, ex-Gov. Richard Webster Leche) spend some $13,500,000 "improving" the university. was indicted on 40 counts, served six years (plus ten months for mail fraud). He ended in obscurity as director...
...Campbells. For a time it had looked as if the Campbells would have other troubles. Fake or not, Hammer's petition had legally divorced them and efforts to get another marriage license were thwarted by an angry Cleveland judge. Editor Seltzer solved that. He sent them to Angola, Indiana, for a remarriage and second honeymoon-at Press expense...
...Court of St. Damasus, where the Pope sat resplendent on an improvised dais, spangled maidens from Goa, bandannaed islanders from Timor, and tribesmen from Dom Pedro's own Angola watched devoutly. The old King had put on a swallow-tailed coat and extra wide trousers. His moustachios gleamed stark and white as he mounted the steps to the throne followed by his Queen, Isabella. His eyes were downcast and glued to his outturned feet for fear he might trip on his trousers. When at last he stood at the top, the crowd applauded. Pedro started to prostrate himself...
...Allies might dictate it to get other useful bases: Angola and Mozambique in Africa, the Cape Verde Islands off Dakar. They might even desire Portugal itself for a march into Hitler's Fortress via Spain...
...Angola...