Word: joes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Your account of Leon Trotsky recalled to me a record of his New York life that has been in our family for years. During the War Joe Brotsky, my mother's cousin by marriage, ran a tailoring shop on Canal Street on the Bowery...
...South Carolina, the suave personal envoy. All three were present one noon last week when Senator Robinson summoned newsmen to his office to discuss the President's breathtaking proposal for rejuvenating the Judiciary (TIME, Feb. 15). Talk skimmed over various features of the plan. "Speaking solely for Joe Robinson." the 64-year-old Majority Leader, who hopes his next step up will be to the Supreme Court bench, observed that justices might well be superannuated at 75 instead of the President...
...those indicted were mere cogs in the political machine. Only one big shot has been subpoenaed-Representative Joe Shannon. He ran one of his own candidates against a Pendergast candidate in the primary as he sometimes does. He complained afterward of "rough stuff, kidnapping, beating of my workers and the worst padding and fraudulent voting I have seen in my long political career." He departed for Washington before a subpoena could be served upon him. Said he: "Sure, I'll return to Kansas City if they want me." But a month went by. Last week he was finally...
...seven o'clock one night last week, Pilot Thompson took his sleek, twin-motored plane up from Burbank with Co-Pilot Joe De Cesaro (who also had flown 147 hours in a Douglas) beside him, pretty Hostess Ruth Kimmel aft taking care of the eight passengers. At 8:44, after an uneventful trip, Pilot Thompson radioed the dispatcher at Mills Field, San Francisco, that he was approaching, would land on the East-West runway. It was a clear, calm night and those at the airport soon saw the big plane droning in from the South at about...
...named Sonafelt who were so anxious to have identical records in everything that one, a much better high diver than the other, would wriggle into her sister's place at swimming meets and dive for both. Best twin legend is that of the Sherman boys of Brooklyn, Charlie & Joe, who are supposed to have won a cross-country race in 1920 when one twin ran the first half, the other the second...