Word: joes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joe, Jim & Bill. When the five-man SECommission was created in 1934 for the sole purpose of reforming Wall Street, worried speculators were mollified when one of their number-Joseph Patrick Kennedy-was made Chairman. A practical Irishman who was a close friend of Franklin Roosevelt, Joe Kennedy had no desire to affront Wall Street, but saw clearly that financial excesses must be curbed. Policeman Kennedy generally used the technique of catching his flies with honey. By the end of a year the job was largely organized. Virtually all listed securities had been registered, a simplified registration form...
REMEMBERING LAUGHTER-Wallace Stegner A CARGO OF PARROTS- R. Hernekin Baptist LOVING MEMORY-James Hill THIS MAN, JOE MURRAY...
Representing the contemporary U. S. scene are William Corcoran's This Man, Joe Murray and Theodore Strauss's Night at Hogwallow. Both books and authors have working-class backgrounds. Tough, popular, sentimental hero of This Man, Joe Murray falls hard for a beautiful, chaste Polish girl, blames himself when she is run over by a train. Marrying without love, he exorcises the dead girl's memory, realizes his wife's worth only after a too jauntily told, bitter period of Unemployment and bumming. Night at Hogwallow is a bloodcurdling first work 'aid in the deep...
Fast at the whistle and always dangerous, the Bruin outfit may be expected to sift through to test the Crimson safety pair of Ted Robie and Joe Bradley. Both are starting the schedule, like the sidelined Captain Dick Powell, Captain and fullback slightly lame...
...Puritans Joe Peden and "Little Joe" Hindle carried the mail, with the latter's third period collin cornor kick having a lot to do with halting any Dudley march before it could organize. In the Winthrop line, Charley Moore and "Blubber" Peters bore the brunt...