Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China Crowd. When last week's acerbity subsides, the Allied commissioners headed for Tokyo will find food for thought in a recent change of attitude toward Japan by the U.S. Department of State. The Department's Far Eastern views used to be heavily influenced by men like Joseph Clark Grew, ex-Ambassador to Japan who later became Under Secretary. The Grew men-the "Japan crowd"-were obsessed with the idea that Japan would always be the strongest power in east Asia. They were not anti-Chinese, but they could not see in sprawling, floundering China any possible growth...
...glare of floodlights suddenly fell on the defendants' faces. A small, stocky woman walked toward the dock. She pointed at a thin-lipped, narrow-eyed man with a low. receding forehead and brows grown together in a constant frown. "This man I recognize," she said. (It was Joseph Kramer, commandant of Belsen concentration camp.) The woman walked on. "This man I recognize." (It was Fritz Klein, Belsen's doctor.) She moved on down the line of defendants, picking out a dozen others...
...days later, at Lachine, a crowd of 2,000 broke up house-to-house distribution of Witness sermons, then besieged Joseph Letellier and three other Witnesses of the sect in Letellier's watch-repair shop. They smashed windows, messed up the shop's front. Three youths were arrested-for throwing stones...
Equipped for Action. In Brigham City, Utah, Joseph Miller exchanged his first set of artificial limbs for a longer pair when he met a tall blonde, bought a short set for better balance when skiing...
...Married. Joseph Wharton Lippincott, 58, tall, big-game-hunting (caribou, bear, antelope) publisher (J. B. Lippincott Co.), author of nature books for children (Chisel Tooth, the Beaver); and Virginia Jones Mathieson, 45, Philadelphia socialite ; both for the second time; in Meadowbrook...