Word: solomons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caravan of the lush, black Queen of Sheba crawled down 3,000 years ago from the mountains of what is now Abyssinia and made for Jerusalem's plateau. The wilful Queen had a fancy to prove the great King Solomon "with hard questions." Legend tells how Solomon fed skeptical Sheba heavily salted dishes. When she grew thirsty in the night, she was obliged to pass through Solomon's chamber to reach the fountain. Said she afterward. "The half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exccedeth the fame which I heard" (I Kings 10: 7). From that...
...Christian Church. Jerusalem's handful of Abyssinians excitedly waved date palms. A crowd of Coptic priests, Abyssinian officials and Palestine's Acting High Commissioner Mark Aitchison Young, all tried to make the fat brown beauty feel as happy as the Queen of Sheba. Only a 20th Century Solomon was lacking. Jerusalem's present ruler, stiff Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, British High Commissioner of Palestine, was at home in England...
Last week indigent Actor Packard was indicted along with Solomon Sugarman (disbarred attorney), George Gopin (once convicted of impersonating a Prohibition agent). Paul Rosen, Ruben Hirsch, Irving Cohen et al. No indictment was returned against Maxwell H. Brown. He had never existed. His name had been signed to letters by an 18-year-old office...
...respect therefore the Senate can question only the shadow cast by the banking house founded by two solid commission merchants from Cincinnati, Abraham Kuhn and Solomon Loeb-the house reared to greatness by great Jacob Schiff who died...
Nine magnas were awarded to recipients of the S.B. degree in the College, one of them signifying highest honors and going to Walter Solomon Salant. The others (high honors) were awarded to Alfred Harvey Daniels, Harry Gesmer, Edward Poole Hollis, Richard Lord Riley, Martin Robert Rogers, Alexander Graham Sanderson, Jr., Frederick Carl Schulde, Jr., and Carl Keenan Seyfort