Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposal seemed to sit well with the delegates. Then up jumped thin-lipped Rev. Joseph M. Dawson of Washington, D.C., public relations executive for 14 million U.S. Baptists. In a crackling voice he read an amendment: "The practices of freedom in non-Communist countries are imperiled by pressures exerted ... by the Roman Catholic hierarchy . . . The ecclesiastical organization and policies of the Roman Catholic Church do not accord with the preservation and extension of religious freedom...
Last week Judge Joseph W. Vickers threw out Russian Exile Stravinsky's damage suit (headlined the New York Daily News: IGOR MORTIS), but added sympathetically that a suit against Leeds for breach of contract might be more in order: "The court feels that a composer has the right to prevent his name from being attached to a composition which he did not write...
Nick Beal is a guy who'll double-deal you for a nickel or fifty grand, just so long as it's good and dirty. This time his target is Joseph Foster (Thomas Mitchell), a pious D.A. who is running for Governor. Beal engineers all sorts of deals to get Foster elected, but ruins his reputation as well. And of course Foster has signed away his soul (in writing, very legal), and only saves himself at the last moment by brandishing a Bible in front of Beal's flendish face...
Thirty-two-year-old Kennedy represents the eleventh Massachusetts district in the lower house of Congress where he serves on the House Committee for Education and Labor. The son of Joseph P. Kennedy '12, former Chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission and one-time ambassador to England, the Representative covered the victorious campaign and election of the Labor Party in England for the International News Service...
...relationship of Oscar Hammerstein's piece to Michener's is closer than I would have supposed possible. There are, of course, the wonderful "characters," such as the lusty, nonchalant Luther Billis and the colorful, to say the least, Bloody Mary. There is also the love story of Lt. Joseph Cable and the native girl Liat, beautifully and simply told...