Word: j
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Election Day last week, as a record turnout of Bostonians headed for the polls, Hynes got a valuable last-minute public endorsement from Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin, an ex-mayor who had twice beaten Curley himself. When the returns were in, Jim Curley had racked up the biggest total in his eight campaigns for mayor (126,000), but Johnny Hynes had collected 12,000 more...
After his famous ride, Paul Revere turned in a swindle sheet, according to Edward J. Cronin, Massachusetts secretary of state. An expense account, dated 1775, which Revere presented to the Boston Committee on Safety, was put on public exhibition last week by Cronin, who dug it out of the Commonwealth's archives. Among the items for which thrifty Revolutionary Revere asked reimbursement: carrying dispatches (at 5 shillings a day), expenses for self and horse, outlays for printing...
...since Admiral Robert Edwin Peary returned from his latest Arctic expedition in 1909, critics have disputed his claim to discovery of the North Pole. As late as 1929, long after Congress, the National Geographic Society and the encyclopedias had taken Peary's word for it, British Polar Scholar J. Gordon Hayes wrote a quarrelsome book to disprove that Peary had reached the Pole. Last week another critic...
...news was worse than expected. Last week Britain's Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank reported that his Odeon Theatres, Ltd. and subsidiaries had lost $9,380,000 on moviemaking in fiscal 1949. Things were so bad, said the man who has been making 50% of Britain's motion pictures, that he might be forced to stop all production after June...
...Hollywood's version of The Lost Weekend, it was the dubbed-in songs of Theodora Lynch Getty that drove the dipsomaniac hero to drink. Last week, tall, easygoing Singer Theodora Getty, 30, wife of Oilman J. Paul Getty and granddaughter of Chicago's late, famed Clothier Henry C. Lytton, was trying to drive all Hollywood to drink something else-pure Hereford water from Deaf Smith County, Texas...