Word: josephs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Communist Party. Vladimir Illyich Lenin was not the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet - the USSR's titular Head of State. That role was filled by his lieutenant Yakov Sverdlov. But the Communist Party leader, as Chairman of the Cabinet, held real executive power. The same was true of Joseph Stalin and his titular Head of State, Mikhail Kalinin. Nikita Khrushchev combined the offices of the Gensek and Prime Minister, while Leonid Brezhnev combined his leadership of the party with the role of head of state, because he desired the 24-gun salute and red carpet treatment on his foreign visits...
Benedict's Birthday: It's on April 16th, so one might expect best wishes from George W. Bush at the White House welcoming ceremony on Wednesday. But if you want to hear seminarians sing "Happy Birthday to You," wait until his visit to St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday...
There are no speeches or writings, no public records to tell us what Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger - the future Pope Benedict XVI - thought of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. But the influential prelate, then head of the Vatican's office for internal doctrinal matters, clearly had a forceful opinion. Soon after the bombs fell on Baghdad, the topic came up in April 2003 as Ratzinger talked with fellow Cardinals Carlo Maria Martini of Italy and Paul Poupard of France at an intimate Vatican diplomatic reception. A Church official present that evening remembers the typically soft-spoken German shaking his fists...
There was just one problem: no one named Shane Joseph was skating with the Sharks that night...
...Boston-based Doble Engineering Company. Doble, who died nearly 40 years ago, majored in electrical engineering at Tufts and served as a trustee at Lesley for over two decades. Calling the gift from Doble’s trust “phenomenal,” Lesley President Joseph B. Moore said that “there’s a big responsibility now to manage it well.” Lesley plans to invest the funds in its endowment, which currently stands at $65 million, according to Moore. The university is currently undergoing an expansion of its facilities...