Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...JOSEPH H. WEIL...
...center of the square was a flower-covered casket, in it the body of "John X," a G.I. fallen in defense of Belgium (he was not an unknown soldier; for this occasion one body was designated as John X). Joseph Cardinal van Roey, primate of Belgium, said a blessing for John X, then the bells of the ancient Notre Dame Cathedral tolled. Hundreds of Belgians fell in behind the procession as a caisson bore the casket to a pier on the Scheldt. There the casket of John X joined 5,599 others in the hold of the U.S. Army transport...
...somewhere in Poland," delegates from nine European Communist Parties met to reorganize "the general staff of the world revolution." The importance of the move was highlighted by the presence of Andrei A. Zhdanov and Georgi M. Malenkov, both members of Russia's ruling Politburo and close advisers of Joseph Stalin. Other top Communist brass who attended: Rumania's Ana Pauker; Yugoslavia's Vice Premier Edward Kardelj; Poland's Vice Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka and Minister of Industry Hilary Mine; Jacques Duclos, secretary of the French Communist Party; Italy's Luigi Longo and Eugenio Reale, and delegates...
...last week, anybody who had bought K-F stock at its May low, and kept it, had more than doubled his money; the stock had climbed steadily to the year's high of 11¾. The reason: since July, Henry Kaiser, Joseph Frazer and associates, while publishing no figures, had quietly spread the word that K-F was making money hand over fist. Their unofficial story: during the first five months of 1947, the company lost $1.4 million (on top of 1946's loss of $19.3 million), but in June, the company got in the black...
Much of their work consists of regular deck-scrubbing, water-testing, leaf-skimming, and extracting dead rats and bobby pins from pools. In Beverly Hills, whose 700-odd pools occupy most of their time, the job is far from routine. After police had searched two days for Actor Joseph Cotten's car, reported stolen, Cotten found it and called Ilsley's men to retrieve it, from his pool. Another time, they fished a live deer out of Joan Fontaine's pool. Jack Benny, who had an octopus molded into the bottom of his tank for laughs, called...