Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supply the capital and know-how, Stettinius formed Stettinius Associates with such big wheels as General Electric's Chairman Philip D. Reed, ex-Under Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew and Admiral William F. Halsey. They will raise $1,000,000 in capital to form the Liberia Co., jointly owned with the Liberian Government. This company, in turn, will form up to 20 different subsidiaries to develop Liberia's iron ore, cocoa, lumber and other resources...
While in a spending mood, the Met also laid out a million dollars for something more in its line: a collection of Middle Eastern, Greek and medieval art. It purchased part of the private collection of the late Joseph Brummer, a wealthy art dealer who had some 150 favorite pieces that he had refused to part with while alive. Among his prizes: a 5th Century B.C. limestone bull's head from the palace at Persepolis, and a 3000 B.C. Greek marble statuette of a harpist, that had some of the well-rubbed simplicity of British Modern Henry Moore...
...range of Joseph Conrad's material, as of his splendid glooms and lucidities in storytelling, could scarcely be better shown than in this collection of eleven long and short tales. They include, besides the familiar sea stories, tales of Poland, England and Asia. Among them are the classic Youth, Amy Foster, Typhoon, The Nigger of the Narcissus, Heart of Darkness. The editor, one of the best of U.S. literary critics, has shown good judgment in not chopping Conrad's longer masterpieces into incomprehensible fragments just to get them inside an anthology. He has also made room...
...days and of his life as a successful doctor to the rich of Chicago. Finally, it records his return to the faith of his father, as he departs from the big city to minister again to the good people of the land. Money, sex--all the usual temptations--attract Joseph Taylor, Jr., on his journey through Vanity Fair...
...three key officers president William Welsh of Kentucky's Beren College; 'Ralph Dungan, vice-president in charge of domestic affairs from St. Joseph's College near Philadelphia; and Robert Smith 1G, international affairs commission head--comprise a neat balance of the divergent interests in America's student community. Coupled with the pattern of political power which produced it, this leadership spells a progressive middle-way for NSA which can win the recognition of hostile administrations and the constitutional ratification of suspicious student electorates...