Word: jose
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cases by his fellow judges because at that point to Attorney General Warren went Banker Joseph H. Stephens, a member of the State Board of Prison Terms and Paroles, with a story that Mark Megladdery had taken a $1,250 bribe to wangle a pardon for a murderous San Jose ex-butcher named Clarence Leddy. Judge Megladdery resigned two weeks after his elevation...
...cattlemen and their spokesmen in Congress exploded with indignation at this Presidential statement. In Argentina whose frozen (but not corned) beef has been kept out of the U. S. on the grounds that the country harbors hoof & mouth disease, his words were acclaimed. Said Argentine Foreign Minister Jose Cantilo in Buenos Aires : "A fine gesture ! ... An important precedent in friendly relations...
...Spanish gold held in France since the start of the war caused trouble between Spain and France. Jose Felix Lequerica, Spanish Ambassador to France, demanded that France return the gold according to an agreement reached between French Senator Leon Berard and Spanish Foreign Minister Count Francisco de Jordana before French recognition of the Franco Government. French Premier Daladier demanded that Spain first take back all of the 400,000 Spanish refugees on French soil who want to go back, and pay for the support of the rest. Upshot was that Senor Lequerica threatened to return to Burgos for good. Premier...
...entries, judges chose 1,214 examples of painting, sculpture and the graphic arts. The roster of well-known names-Thomas Hart Benton, Eugene Speicher, Adolf Dehn, George Grosz, Edward Hopper, Charles Burchfield, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, William Zorach, Peggy Bacon, many another-is long, but incomplete. Some (Georgia O'Keefe, Jose de Creeít) did not submit anything. Some (Frederick Waugh, Robert Brackman) were turned down...
Finicky collegians started more appetizing games. At San Jose (Calif.) State College, for example, Jack Baldwin wagered he could catch and kiss 20 co-eds in 30 minutes, fell six short. Soon San Francisco State College's Marshall Blum claimed a record: 40 kisses in five minutes. At New York University Co-ed Dorothy McDonald kissed 36 boys in four and a half minutes. San Diego State College's Joseph Arthur Pranis staged a three-day hunger strike to bring gulpers "to their senses." At week's end he was thwarted by what seemed an ultimate -horror...