Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most significant and promising gesture came from the Kremlin's pinnacle of power, Joseph Stalin, who twice within recent weeks has good-naturedly answered questionnaires submitted by foreign journalists. Stalin's replies, particularly those given to United Press' Hugh Baillie two days ago, have caused a minor sensation in the diplomatic world and have raised the hopes of peacemakers to a new high. Much of their optimism is justified, but all of it is not borne out by a close examination of Stalin's remarks...
Sitting on the 50-yard stripe with a couple of lady friends was Joseph P. Kennedy '12, America's former representative to the court of St. James. On the field the Crimson was slugging it out with the boys from Worcester, and a stubby fan in front of Joe was exhorting Ned Dewey, left tackle, to deeds of greater fame...
Call the OPA! In St. Joseph, Mo., the OPA rent-control office was 7½ months behind with its rent...
Advance Continued. At the time Ed Martin joined up, Joseph Ridgway Grundy, the cherubic, wealthy Quaker millowner and cold, shrewd defender of high tariffs, was rising to power. "Uncle Joe" Grundy, as Martin still calls him, had been dictating tariff bills since 1897. His masterpiece was the Smoot-Hawley bill of 1930, which precipitated an economic world war and was one underlying cause of World War II. To some Joe Grundy was an ogre. To his friends, the white-haired, thee-saying Quaker was just an old-fashioned businessman. The machine served Grundy...
There was nothing simple about William Hogarth, the earliest of the three, who made 18th Century London look like a highly dramatic hell. Nor was there anything earthy about Joseph M. W. Turner's blazey skies, and seascapes...