Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public could watch the construction job (not as commonplace a sight in the U.S. as it was a generation ago). Next door other workmen were putting a new face on St. Patrick's. Down the street, the sign on the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas said that Dr. Joseph Sizoo would preach the next Sunday on "When Dawn Comes...
...brought news to them from neighboring towns. In his notes and in his uncertain camera, he imprisoned a homely record that dealt with horses, people, auctions, and little girls who raise rabbits. When he had enough of a haul, he headed home to St. Louis and his desk at Joseph Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch...
...Doctor. Prescriber of these and many other medicines was Modie Joseph Spiegel Jr., fast-talking, energetic president and general manager. Modie Spiegel took over the 80-year-old family business in 1932, when it was deep in Depression trouble. Annual sales had dropped from a $20 million peak in the booming '20s to a disastrous $7 million. Losses since 1929 had been $2.6 million...
...said Europe was hungry? Just a lot of hogwash for Uncle Sap, said Captain Joseph Patterson's New York Daily News. The News had sent Robert Conway, one of its local men, on a junket to Iceland; he had gone on to Europe on his own. From Rome he sent home a story which the News headlined...
...time of the Civil War, the store (which had already moved part way uptown toward its present address at Madison Avenue and 44th Street) was "the largest establishment of its kind in the world." Naturally, Union Generals Ulysses S. Grant, Philip H. Sheridan, William Tecumseh Sherman and Joseph Hooker campaigned in Brooks Brothers' uniforms. Abraham Lincoln was wearing a Brooks Brothers coat when he was assassinated...