Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lynn, Mass., 14-year-old Stephen Joseph Connolly, who had fractured his right arm during a Columbus Day football scrimmage last year, engaged in a Columbus Day football scrimmage, again fractured his right...
...Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin is reputed a restless sleeper; he rarely gets to bed before 2 a.m. But last week, Stalin sent the world a soporific greeting (with a wakeful edge). Six British Laborites, led by pro-Communist M.P. Konni Zilliacus, visited Stalin at his seaside villa at Sochi (where he recently ended his triumphal inspection of the Soviet Fleet-see cut). To his callers, the Generalissimo said...
...Russia's 1947 crop was 58% more than last year's. Agriculture experts believed the actual figure was near 61,000,000 tons, or only about 25% above last year. Just how much grain Russia would be able to spare for bread-politics abroad depended on whether Joseph Stalin fulfilled his long standing promise to lift bread rationing at home. At any rate, on the hungry Continent, only Russia watched winter's approach without apprehension...
Last week, at the International War Crimes trial in Tokyo, U.S. Chief Prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan asked onetime Imperial Adviser Marquis Koicho Kido: "Is it not a fact that from the beginning to the end of your political career, you consistently opposed any move by the Emperor to bring about law and order?" Marquis Kido nodded sublimely. "Yes," he answered through an interpreter. But his Western judges seemed to misunderstand. He explained that he had meant: "Yes, it is not a fact...
Died. John Joseph ("Jack") Dunne, 57, beer baron of the Dry Decade; during an operation; in Jersey City. Dunne kept a number of giant Jersey breweries running during Prohibition, bootlegged his way to a $15 million fortune, discreetly retired in 1930 when gangstering got too hot for him, went bankrupt eleven years later...