Word: josephs
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Vital Statistics. Age: 63 (born Nov. 3, 1884 in North Attleboro, Mass., in a two-family frame house across the street from John Stanley's blacksmith shop). Ancestry: eldest son of eight children of Joseph William Martin Sr., a Presbyterian Scotsman who worked in the blacksmith shop, and Catherine Katon, an Irish Catholic; both his parents were born in New Jersey. Educated: North Attleboro public schools through high school. Not Married. Church: none...
Early Years. Father Joseph's $15 a week as a blacksmith's helper did not go far. Young Joe began selling newspapers at seven, later worked in nearby jewelry manufacturing plants...
Across the U.S., on the same day, some 300 other dogged interviewers were asking the same questions of 3,000 other more or Iess well-informed U.S. citizens. Should the U.S. have daylight-saving time all year round? Should Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin sit down together and talk things over? How is Harry Truman doing his job? Which Republican would you like to see President...
...Fools' Day, he appointed one John Joseph Connors, a dapper, poker-faced ward heeler, as chairman of the Boston Board of Election Commissioners. The salary: $7,000. In addition to supervising elections, the commission compiles lists of prospective jurors for Suffolk County and is charged with keeping them free of criminals...
Unmoved. Another of the boys was in trouble last week-for a brief moment. Former City Councilman Joseph M. Scannell went on trial in Suffolk Superior Court charged with attempted shakedown. The prosecution said he had demanded $3,000 from a man who wanted a license to run a water-taxi service from a Congress Street dock to Logan Airport. Cherub-cheeked Joe, who holds down a $5,200-a-year job as a construction inspector for the Curley-controlled city housing authority, pleaded nolo contendere (I ain't sayin' a word...