Word: joseph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...August 21, 1939, Joseph Patrick Kennedy, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, returned by plane to London, fresh from a month's vacation with his wife and nine children spent at an estate famous for its roses, Domain de Ranguin, five miles from Cannes, on the French Riviera. In the two weeks that followed, the red-faced, red-haired Boston Irishman went many times in the footsteps if not in the mood of Walter Page to the red-draped oak-and-leather office in Downing Street. There he saw a man like him only...
...were extraordinary foils to rough-&-ready Joe Kennedy. In Paris William Bullitt, onetime Philadelphia socialite, dilettante left-winger, champagne-gossip of Europe, consistent Hitler alarmist, has the greater fund of pre-War post-War knowledge, has long been the "closest" to Roosevelt. In Poland, ducking German bombs* was Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, another rich young (42) Philadelphian, who had turned serious diplomat...
...closed south of the Downs by a minefield. Across it into France, General Sir Edmund delivered some 100,000 British troops to the land forces operating under General Gamelin's supreme command. At the same time the air chiefs met, Sir Cyril L. N. Newall and General Joseph Vuillemin. In the air the Briton is the boss, but in this War, land and air forces are integrated more closely than ever before. All the generals concentrated on a problem for which neither nation had primarily fashioned its arms: an offensive action moving away from France's great defensive...
...minority, but the sorest lot of all, are Poland's peasants. There are 20,000,000 of them, 5,000.000 of whom are continually unemployed. Few can read, some in Galicia do not know that the Emperor Franz Joseph is dead and that they are no longer Austrian subjects. To them salt is like gold dust, bread like caviar. But last week peasant boys were stolidly shuffling to mobilization centres, farmers were sending their only horses to bolster the country's cavalry-minded army...
...London's famed Tate let it be known that up to August 31 more than 60% of its 2,600 pictures and 400 pieces of sculpture had been removed to three large country houses, locations unannounced. Already moved were 140 canvases of the late great pre-Impressionist Joseph Mallord William Turner. On the floor near the ladies' lavatory, still waiting their turn for evacuation, were the sculptures of very-much alive Jacob Epstein...