Word: josef
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...live in hopeless poverty. When a typhoon (dubbed "Gloria" by meteorologists) swept the island last summer and caused widespread damage, the Army finally investigated the situation. The island's command was shaken up. Major General William W. Eagles, commander of ground forces, was replaced by breezy Major General Josef R. Sheetz, a convivial hustler who had done an able military government job in Korea. Air Force troops on Okinawa are commanded by grey, quiet-spoken Major General Alvin C. ("Ack-Ack") Kincaid, whose slightly absent-minded philosopher's air belies his hardheaded attention to discipline and morale. Since...
...paintings by Rubens, Romney, Hobbema and others; when the hammer fell on the last of them, a total of $46,690 had been paid out. On succeeding days there were sales of jewelry once worn by James B. ("Diamond Jim") Brady, paintings and sculpture collected by Cinema Director Josef von Sternberg...
CONGRATULATIONS . . . JUDGE MEDINA'S CONDUCT OF THE RECENT TRIAL, IN WHICH FORCES WERE PLAINLY AT WORK TO CRAMP AND PARALYZE THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, WAS AN ENNOBLING INSPIRATION TO ALL FREE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. IN MARKED CONTRAST WAS THE TRIAL OF JOSEF CARDINAL MINDSZENTY IN BUDAPEST. IT TOOK THE KREMLIN THREE DAYS TO IMPOSE GUILT ON THIS INNOCENT MAN, AS AGAINST THE 169 DAYS ALLOWED IN JUDGE MEDINA'S COURT TO OVERTHROW THE LEGAL PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE AND IMPOSE GUILT ON GUILTY MEN. JUDGE MEDINA'S . . . COURT GENERALSHIP ... RECALLS TO MIND JUSTICE CARDOZO'S WORDS...
...those jailed were 40 more Roman Catholic priests (estimated total of nuns and priests already jailed: 300); they had opposed two bills, steamrollered through Parliament, which made all clergymen employees of the state (at the same time doubling their salaries), and appointed a cabinet minister to "supervise" religion. Archbishop Josef Beran, interned in his palace since June, was quoted by Western diplomats in Prague as saying that the new laws were "treason to the Christian faith." Beran was grieved that some priests had given public support to the bills, had been "bought for Judas coin...
Schubert: Symphony No. 6 (London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips conducting; London FFRR, 8 sides). A delightful, youthful symphony, delightfully performed under the baton of a Viennese Schubert and Mozart master. Recording: excellent...