Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boss of all the world's Communists, Russia's Stalin was the free world's great single antagonist. On balance, Joseph Stalin had a pretty good year. He could score one minor and one major victory. In Czechoslovakia, he had openly seized what he had already possessed in fact. In China, his devoted apostles-Mao Tse-tung, leader of China's Communist Party, and Chu Teh, commander of China's Communist armies-were winning a victory for which they could thank the stupidities of their opponents as much as their own skill. History, which would...
...Joseph Stalin observed his 69th birthday quietly in the Kremlin. The Soviet press and public, obeying instructions, ignored the occasion...
...When he goes so far as to let a reporter inside his studio in the Riviera hill town of Vence, the old man is apt to have a surprise up his sleeve. This week in the New York Times Sunday magazine, one of Matisse's most recent visitors, Joseph A. Barry, reported his latest. Matisse, past master of charm and cheerfulness, was designing a chapel...
...morning service in Chicago's McCormick Theological Seminary, second-year Student Harold M. Davis, 27, strode to the pulpit. His tie, as bright and many-colored as Joseph's coat, was the one vivid touch in the plain, crowded Victorian chapel. From Acts he read three short passages about Barnabas, "a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost," under whose teaching "the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch...
Harvard's Professor Demos had posed his problem specifically about Pianist Walter Gieseking, who had played at Joseph Goebbels' bidding. But in varying degrees other musicians had been tarred with the same brush: Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who had once taken a Nazi post, but who fought to keep the Jewish musicians in his Berlin Philharmonic;* and Flagstad, who had returned to occupied Norway to be with her husband (he died before he could be tried for collaboration). Flagstad had never sung for either quislings or Nazis...