Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, the second most important return of a dead hero in Jewish history; the most important, said Ben-Gurion, occurred 3,300 years ago when the Jews carried Joseph's casket back to Palestine from their Egyptian exile. But after the ceremony was over, most Israelis seemed too busy building their new country to be emotional about the prophet's return. The attitude of brisk irreverence was expressed by one Tel Aviv paper which ran a cartoon showing a man kneeling before Herzl's coffin. "Why do you weep...
...Josip Broz Tito thought that Joseph Stalin had reached the top of his voice, he had heard nothing yet. Last week, amplifying earlier charges that Yugoslavia was mistreating Russian nationals residing in Yugoslavia, Moscow loosed a 3,000-word blast against Tito that was enough to make the marshal's formidable wolfhounds dive whimpering under the nearest...
Next day, Tito's government hurled back charges of "lies and slanders," "distortions of the truth," and "unworthy insinuations," branded Russia as an enemy and "double-crosser." East and West, the question was: If Joseph Stalin" is no longer willing to "rest content" with the existence of Tito's regime, just what does he intend...
Archduke Franz Joseph of Habsburg asked a New York court to settle a royal family row. He wanted exactly $949,999 from his brother and sister-in-law, Archduke Anton and Archduchess Ileana. That, he said, was his rightful share of what they had received for an ancestral castle, objets d'art and the family silverware in Austria. Although Anton and Ileana were safely in Buenos Aires, he won an attachment against $100,000 that they had salted away in the Chase National Bank...
Best Vatican guesses were that the Pope would name no more than eight or ten new cardinals. U.S. names most often mentioned: Archbishop John Joseph Mitty (65) of San Francisco, who is highly rated for his work on social problems; Archbishop John Timothy McNicholas (71) of Cincinnati, and Archbishop Francis P. Keough (58) of Baltimore, both leaders in the National Catholic Welfare Conference. In Canada, rumors centered on Archbishop Maurice Roy of Quebec (the oldest Roman Catholic see in North America), Archbishop Alexander Vachon of Ottawa, and Archbishop Joseph Charbonneau of Montreal...