Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vitality, with the righteous middle class living in suburbs "the bedrooms of Boston" --outside the municipal limits where they have neither votes nor interest in reform, and with the working class content in its slums. Boston lacks the seed of initiative to overcome its inertia. In other cities a Joseph Pulitzer or a Mark Eldridge has crusaded through the newspapers and found something dynamic in the community to complement its editorials. In Boston, how ever, the press takes its lead from the community, and Boston must rest in its circle torpor...
Governor Warren of California appointed Bill Knowland to the Senate in 1945 to pay off an old political debt to his influential father, Oakland Tribune Publisher Joseph R. Knowland. Young Knowland had had an unspectacular career as state assemblyman and senator, had done better as executive committee chairman of the Republican National Committee. He was an assistant publisher of the Tribune, the father of three, and an indefatigable joiner and organizer of charity drives. Drafted into the Army in 1942, he had risen to the rank of major...
...dinner in the high-ceilinged ballroom of Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford last week, white-thatched Joseph Ridgway ("Uncle Joe") Grundy resigned at 84 as chairman of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association's executive committee. In Pennsylvania, this could be equaled in news value, if not in importance, only by the resignation of Connie Mack from the Athletics...
Congressional tempers were not improved by another choice bit of double-talk before the Senate committee the day before. Squinting through a pair of dark glasses, the A.F.L. Hod Carriers' pious Joseph V. Moreschi listened while his lawyer read his plea...
William L. Bruce '46 of Dunster House; Robert D. Cross '45 of Eliot; Robert A. Curley '46 of Dudley Hall and Dorchester; Joseph D. Everingham '49 of Kirkland House; Francis D. Fisher '47 of Adams House; John W. McNulty '48 of Lowell House; Jerome Preston, Jr. '44 of Winthrop House; and Thaxter Swan '45 of Leverett House...