Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign had also begun, and the U.S. people were in the middle of it. They had not been put there by George Marshall alone. Their decision had been shaped, in part, by the pressure of events -starvation and despair in Europe, the cynical and ruthless policies of Joseph Stalin, the stubborn, mendacious methods of Molotov, the calculated rantings of Andrei Vishinsky...
...government suggested ?50,000 as a likely figure for the consort's annual allowance. Joseph Hume, the radical member for Kilkenny, thought it was too much. "Are you aware," he asked his Tory colleagues, "of the danger of setting a young man down in London with so much money in his pocket?" The House of Commons took a vote and decided that ?40,000 a year was ample for Victoria's Prince Albert...
...weeks Indians had been filling the markets of Mexico City with Christmas goods. Over the mountains from Toluca and Puebla they had come dogtrotting, their backs piled high with big clay pots (piñatas), their burros laden with little clay figurines of Joseph, Mary, the Christ Child, shepherds, lambs and the Three Kings...
Died. Irving Joseph Fox, 58, who ran a single fur coat into a $12-million annual business (I. J. Fox, Inc.) by some of the loudest publicity since Barnum; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. London-born son of a furrier, Fox pioneered in sky writing and singing commercials ("All Girls Are Beautiful"), introduced commercially some fabulous luxury furs (silverblu, platina), but did most of his business in installment sales of cheaper goods...
...same reasons some of them take a very dubious view of statehood's energetic champion, Delegate Joseph Farrington...