Word: j
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marked change" had come over Congressman J. Parnell Thomas, he told the doctors. The onetime fire-eating chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee was just in no shape, he insisted, to stand trial in federal court on charges that he padded his congressional payroll. Ever since he had been operated on for peptic ulcer, he said, he had suffered from depression, sometimes wept, had phobias about seeing people, driving a car and going to the barbershop...
...Jefferson County's big stone courthouse, the gossip and laughter were loud. There were strike-idled coal miners and old men who shave only once every three days and carry canes. Klansmen posed for pictures smiling broadly, friend-ly-like. Inside the courtroom, mild old Judge Robert J. Wheeler fingered his speckled white mustache. Occasionally he spat delicately into his cuspidor...
...base and filler for the south access rotary and part of the dredging for the south abutment of the bridge were completed during the last 15 months by the J. F. White Contracting Company of Cambridge (Joseph F. White '14). The land on both sides of the river and the river bottom itself are thick mud, absolutely useless as foundation for construction...
...leaving the goalpost crowds each Saturday with things more valuable than splintered wood, William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, reported yesterday...
...other members of the executive board named last night are: Ernest T. Berkeley, Jr., John S. Hermann, Richard E. Johnson, Stephen I. Rudin, Daniel J. Young, and George C. Viahos...