Word: johnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard-working U.S. District Attorney John F. X. McGohey, whose selection as a judge of the Southern District...
...reinforced, had ranged themselves around the crowded room, against its marble walls. Eleven bosses of the Communist Party, on trial for conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government, now at the hour of reckoning, sat inside the rail behind their five lawyers. U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey, their unsmiling antagonist, rested his grey head on his hand...
...Anderson, a quiet, intelligent and pleasant woman of 40, lives on the good earth of Minnesota - the 400-acre estate left by her father-in-law, the late Alexander Pierce Anderson, inventor of Puffed Wheat and Puffed Rice. But she and her husband-Abstract Artist John Pierce Anderson-are hardly horny-handed tillers of the soil. Eugenie Anderson has traveled in Europe, studied music in Manhattan's Juilliard School. She has an intellectual's taste in art, books and music. Nevertheless, the appointment, which made her the first U.S. woman to become an ambassador, seemed like a pleasant...
Once upon a time there were three ambitious men in the United Mine Workers. John L. Lewis kicked out William Green, and then there were two. John L. Lewis had a falling out with Philip Murray and then there...
...years passed, and the A.F.L.'s Green, the C.I.O.'s Murray and the miners' Lewis became the Big Three of U.S. labor, John L. Lewis never hesitated a second when he had a chance to chuck a cast-iron insult at his former brothers-in-labor. Samples: "I have explored the head of William Green and, believe me, there is nothing there"; "a pusillanimous little man who sees ghosts at night"; "the A.F.L. has no head-its neck just grew up and haired over." Furthermore, rumbled old John L., Philip Murray was "innocuous, feeble and namby-pamby...