Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris last week a French writer touched off a political prediction that went fizzing fiercely around the world. The writer: Yves Delbars, specialist in Russian affairs for the conservative Paris Presse. The prediction: Generalissimo Joseph Stalin, ill with an old liver ailment aggravated by fatigue, will retire from "all active and direct participation" in the Soviet Government this winter...
...Joseph Stalin...
When he fled to Germany, just before World War II, he took with him a Manchester show girl, whom he married, although he had left a wife in England. Paul Joseph Goebbels' propaganda machine paid him $75 a month. Adolf Hitler bestowed on him the War Merit Cross, First Class. According to his own statement, he became a naturalized German citizen. The British nicknamed him "Lord Haw-Haw" and they laughed at him. But they never forgot his taunts at Britain...
...bustling, redhaired, rawboned Joseph August Brandt has lived most of his 46 years near, but never quite in, academic ivory towers. His job has been to make the ivory towers pay rent. He helps make bestsellers out of books which professors write...
...Brandt, an ex-Rhodes Scholar and ex-newspaperman, has successively headed three college presses: University of Oklahoma (where he wheedled out of John Joseph Mathews his Indian study, Wah'kon-tah, the first university press book to become a Book-of-the-Month); Princeton (which he left to become, briefly, president of Oklahoma), and the University of Chicago, where he has continued to publish salable books by scholars (a recent one. The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich Hayek...