Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the clouds cleared away. The striking coal miners went back to work (see below). New York Harbor's rebellious longshoremen decided that their strike could not possibly break the iron rule of Union Boss Joseph P. Ryan; ships moved out again after 18 days of idleness...
...born in Prague. Her father was a Milquetoasty little fellow who worked in the city hall; her domineering mother was determined that Lida should be a radiant somebody. She became one, in motion pictures. Seven years ago she was the center of a great brouhaha when goatish little Paul Joseph Goebbels was beaten up (either by her burly husband, Gustav Frölich, or by friends of his) for being entertained in Lida's chambers. Berliners coined a crack-"Ich möchte so gern fröhlich sein"-which can mean either "I wish I were happy...
...years the hard-muscled members of the East Coast's International Longshoremen's Association have grumbled at the highhanded, well-manicured leadership of bulky, redheaded Joseph Patrick Ryan. On Oct. 1, when 30,000 stevedores walked off the job in New York City, they revolted. Led by Eugene Sampson, business agent for Manhattan's largest local, 791, the rebels had balked at a Ryan-negotiated contract which gave them a 10?-an-hour pay increase and a week's paid vacation. Reason: it ignored their demands for smaller sling loads, larger working crews and a guarantee...
Russia was relaxing. The Soviet Union's First Proletarian, Joseph Stalin, set the pace. The papers reported last week: "Comrade J. V. Stalin . . . went away on leave." But, with customary caution, they did not say where he went...
...Died. Joseph Cardinal MacRory, 84, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland; after a brief illness; in Armagh, Northern Ireland. Scion of a lusty clan called "The Burnderries" (because in 1608 they rebelled against the British and burned London derry), the doughty Archbishop bitterly opposed the partition of Ireland. For his funeral Prime Minister Eamon de Valera said that he would go from Eire into Northern Ireland for the first time in 17 years...