Word: j
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heirs of the great J. P. Morgan chase a widow around Europe and hunt down theater tickets? See BUSINESS, The Big Banker...
Star-Crossed. In Philadelphia, fired from his city job for a long string of absences and tardiness, J. Howard Johnson appealed to the local Civil Service Commission for his early reinstatement as law-enforcement clerk, explained that he was born under the astrological sign of Sagittarius, which makes him too restless to stay put in one spot for more than a few hours at a time...
...mayors of Burlington and Rutland, Vt. said they would buy plane tickets home from Florida at their own expense because the Air Force junket they were on was a "fraud, a terrible waste of tax money." . . ."It's a damned outrage [said Rutland's Mayor Dan J. Healy], an outrage being perpetrated not only on the taxpayers of Vermont, but the entire U.S." . . ."The whole thing is a fraud [said Burlington's Mayor James E. Fitzpatrick], a terrible waste of tax money and our time. We're coming home...
...lingering doubt as to why the late Philanthropist Vincent Astor cut his half brother, sometime Playboy John Jacob Astor, out of his will was cleared up by Vincent's widow, Brooke Russell Astor. Testifying in an examination preceding the trial in which J. J. will strive to get a slice of Vincent's estimated $120 million fortune, Brooke Astor told of Vincent's deep feeling for J. J.: "Nothing but contempt." Captain Astor, a Navy officer in both World Wars, regarded J. J., said Brooke Astor, daughter of a Marine Corps general, as "the most useless...
...page pamphlet is the work of a five-man committee appointed by the Archbishop in March 1958 under the chairmanship of J. T. (for John Traill) Christie, principal of Oxford's Jesus College. The committee members (a lawyer, a psychiatrist, a philosopher and a theologian) investigated the subject of self-destruction from almost every conceivable angle-historical, legal, medical, moral-and came to the conclusion that considerably more charity is needed all around...