Word: joseph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long since had been inevitably labeled "St. Francis," "in uncovering any corrupt situation in any part of the country to which there is a Federal angle." In other words, observers cracked, Frank Murphy was going to catch crooks everywhere, while Tom Dewey jailed a few bad New Yorkers. Columnists Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner quoted Frank Murphy's good-&-great friend Franklin Roosevelt as telling a caller that before Frank Murphy got through Tom Dewey's achievements would begin to look like pretty small potatoes. Cherubic Columnists Alsop & Kintner also speculated on a New Deal "dream ticket...
...Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly last week offered his three-story brick house to Cardinal Mundelein for use of the Church...
...deposed last year by Democrat Culbert Levy Olson. Just before Frank Merriam stepped down, he appointed his 33-year-old lawyer-secretary to the Superior Court of Alameda County. Judge Megladdery was assigned no 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...
Obviously this point of view was unendurable and soon Nazi and Fascist press puppets were swinging into action. German Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels sprinkled Nazi papers with such ominous phrases as "impending decisions," the "war of tomorrow," the "mighty reckoning" to come. The Italians went Dr. Goebbels one better. Il Messagero, of Rome, flatly warned: "If within a certain time the democracies do not yield to councils of reason we go to war." The Fascist official newsorgan Resto del Carlino roared: "The time of reckoning is near. . . . They still deny us Tunis, Djibouti, Suez and also deny Danzig...
...William and Comrade Molotov conferred for an hour, at the end of which the Foreign Commissar said he would transmit the British note to his Government, i.e., Joseph Stalin. In Nazi circles, meanwhile, hints were circulated of an impending German, not British, understanding with the Soviets, and there were inspired ghoulish stories that the Communists had proposed to the Nazis a partition of Poland. But while Comrade Stalin maintained an enigmatic silence the British were taking it for granted that the British-French-Russian alliance was in the bag. They even announced that Kliment Voroshilov, top-ranking Soviet General, friend...