Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spaghetti & Tea. But the voters were uninterested. A Harvard public-opinion expert made a study of the district, advised him to avoid world problems. As president of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (named after his dead brother), and as an American Legionnaire, he already had the wholehearted support of most veterans. His big job was to convince the 37 different nationalities in some of Boston's grimiest slums that he was not just the wealthy son of wealthy Joe Kennedy, former Ambassador to Britain...
...James Joseph Tunney, man of affairs, was in Mexico City. In the air, with the help of Tunney money: a new "luxury" air service to the U.S. and Canada...
Among the 200 Rhodes scholars who rate Who's Who in America: Henry Holt & Co.'s President Joseph Brandt, ex-OWI Director Elmer Davis, FCCommissioner Clifford J. Durr, Arkansas Senator. J. William Fulbright, Author Christopher Morley...
...drugs simply counteract each other, explained Drs. Abraham Freireich and Joseph Landsberg, in the A.M.A. Journal. Dr. Freireich, a Long Island county toxicologist, directed the treatments which revived 19 would-be suicides with massive intravenous injections of benzedrine. (The reviving dose of benzedrine would be equally poisonous to any but a thoroughly doped victim.) Benzedrine, he also found, prevents the pneumonia which frequently follows an unsuccessful barbiturate poisoning...
With the help of a nephew and employe, E. Allen Lustig, and his chief bookkeeper Joseph Sobel, Longchamps' had kept two sets of books, one for Henry, one for Uncle Sam. Profits on which taxes were paid were determined by avarice, not earnings. Fictitious expenses were put down; the bulk of the tips to hat-check girls ($5,000 a month) was pocketed by Lustig and not reported. Lustig's house hold expenses (and race horses) were charged up to corporation expenses; $18,142 went to a decorator, $913 for Mrs. Lustig's modes...