Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Owned by Alicia Patterson, daughter of the late Joseph Medill Patterson, founder of the New York Daily News...
...Cheshire grin hanging over the whole scene was Joseph Stalin's. Russia sent a diplomatic mission to Israel (the first to the new state). Some observers feared that, in a pinch, Israeli extremists might ask for Russian aid, invite a chunk of the Red Army into the Middle East. It would probably not come to that. But by week's end, U.S. and British diplomats could not be sure that they had healed the U.S.-British rift...
...Joseph B. Keenan, chief prosecutor in the Japanese war-crime trials, noted happily that he was a much more popular author in Japan than ex-Premier Hideki Tojo, the No. 1 defendant. The published text of Tojo's defense affidavit had sold 5,000 copies, the Japanese version of Keenan's summation...
...Joseph Untermeyer, 19, adopted son of relentless Punster* and Anthologist Louis, was cleared of illegal possession of firearms. Arrested a month ago in a Manhattan loft building that held a small arsenal, he explained that he was just wrapping bundles of food and clothing for Palestine, didn't know anything about the arms. The court believed...
Hollywood could never cast Columnist Joseph Wright Alsop Jr. in its stock role of the slouch-hatted, wisecracking newsman. He does not look the part, and he was not brought up to play it. Instead of the rough-&-tumble school of the police beat, he went to Groton and Harvard, where he wandered around with volumes of Proust and Joyce under his arm and thought politics beneath discussion. His silk shirts and tailored suits are as out of character as his high-pitched "ah there" voice. He exudes a cultivated and imperious...