Word: josephe
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Chicago, when Joseph Callahan fell out of his chair, his false teeth flew through the air, landing first. When Joe hit the floor, his teeth bit him in the forehead...
This news brought into sharp focus the fact that Adolf Hitler, soon after his Berlin-Moscow Deal (TIME, Aug. 28, 1939), obtained a reversal by Joseph Stalin of the policy of the British Communist Party. Out as secretary of the British Communist Party went Harry Pollitt, who up to the day Moscow's orders were received had been urging British workers and Communists to help win the war. "The Communist Party supports the war, believing it to be a just war," had been Secretary Pollitt's policy. On the orders of Stalin, Pollitt made a complete recantation, swore...
Birthdays. Joseph Stalin, his 61st, without public mention; Canada's Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King, his 66th, with 66 roses from his Cabinet; Senhora Darcy de Vargas, wife of Brazil's President Getulio Vargas, her nth (it is considered very poor taste to divulge a lady's age in Brazil...
...Robert Joseph Boltz was born into the world with an asset beyond price-an old Germantown family name. Conservative, religious, ultra-scrupulous in business matters, Philadelphia's Germantown families yield nothing to Boston's Brahmins. Among them the highest recommendation is the simple phrase "He comes from a fine family." Robert Boltz...
...Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, publisher of the Manhattan tabloid Daily News, got interested in sex determination. He hired a couple of scientists, set them to work in an old laboratory douching rats and rabbits. For two years the News has issued bulletins on the sex of its baby rats. Alleged rate of success: 75%. Last month, Professor Elmer Roberts of the University of Illinois, working independently of the News, announced that he had predetermined the sex of 1,800 rats. At the same time, Dr. Leon Jacob Cole of the University of Wisconsin reported that, with his rats and rabbits...