Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Offered the job of U.S. Ambassador to Japan in 1932, Joseph Clark Grew had deep doubts: Japanese militarists al ready had made clear their intention to try to take over Asia. He consulted his wife, a granddaughter of Commodore Matthew C. Perry who had opened Japan to Western commerce...
Along the way, Hoover obliquely rapped Senator Robert Kennedy, who, as Attorney General, had successfully pressed for publicizing the secret testimony of ex-Mafia Hood Joseph Valachi. Hoover noted that "no indictments were returned" as a result of Valachi's testimony and, without mentioning Bobby's name, continued: "I was not in favor of the release of Valachi's testimony because I felt if there was any merit to what he had to say it ought to be run down and tried in court. My feeling in approaching the criminal problem has been...
This month Roman Catholic Archbishop John F. Dearden of Detroit and St. Louis' Joseph Cardinal Ritter announced that they would give preferential treatment to suppliers who gave equal opportunity to minority groups; the same policy will eventually be applied to contractors. Under the terms of "Project Equality," bids from suppliers will be judged not only on the basis of cost and quality, but also on the company's fair-employment practices record. Directors of the project expect that within two years this policy will be adopted by at least 40 other dioceses...
...charges of heresy are nonsensical," answers Msgr. Myles Bourke of St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y. One of the nation's most respected New Testament scholars, Bourke explains that many Protestant versions use "fellow" where Jesus' enemies speak of him contemptuously, and that the passive "He has been raised" follows the Greek verb precisely. Bourke further notes that the New Testament translation is only about half completed, and that the texts will be reviewed for style by a literary editor before they are formally published in 1968. By then, the translators feel, Catholic critics may change...
...their parts. Sargent employed the rapid-fire, four-camera, damn-the-retakes shooting technique of television. However ragged the result on the big screen, this method enabled him to bring in his Harlow for one-seventh the cost ($600,000) of a rival Harlow being produced simultaneously by Joseph Levine. More important, he finished it in one-seventh the time (eight days), so that Electrono-vision could steal the plunder from Levine, who will not have his Carroll Baker Harlow ready for premiere until the end of June...