Word: joes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joe Strecker . . . voted for Al Smith in 1928, ... for Mr. Foster in 1932." But in 1933 he was not yet a citizen, according to TIME [Feb. 20]. What goes on here...
...Joe Strecker did vote in both 1928 and 1932. Says his lawyer, C. Alpheus Stanfield: "Here in Hot Springs we are broadminded on a question like that...
...than they bounce up again. Somewhat similar nightmares are said to be troubling Japanese generals, who bowl over Chinese towns one by one, only to have the Chinese seep in behind their advance and set them up again. Last week Japanese announced they had captured coastal Haichow (pronounced Hi, Joe) and Lungkow (Loong-Go), last Chinese-held ports north of Shanghai, and two inland Shantung towns...
...responsible for wangling a new mortgage out of Harry Chandler, sending Joe Connolly to Chicago and telling the .Consolidated directors what to do, the man whose tough job it is to hold together what is left of the Hearst empire, is a small, dry Manhattan lawyer named Clarence John Shearn. Though he stepped down from the bench 20 years ago, he still likes to be called Judge Shearn. When Hearst was a liberal crusader in the early 19003 Clarence Shearn was his lawyer. His last big job before he became Hearst's boss 21 months ago was as trial...
...kind of speakeasy--swing-easies"--behind sound proof doors? "Joe sent me"--furtive men carrying hot choruses around in black satchels--"Yeah, the straight stuff's here--Norvo, Basie, they're all beatin' it out downstairs"--black trucks being hijacked for rare records--raids on dives where Louis Armstrong is tearing "Dinah" to shreds? We'll probably all end up playing Mickey Mouse piano with Shep Fields...