Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus reasoned a lanky, hardheaded Californian whose Irish blood fears no fight but whose humanist mind hates folly. Lawyer John Francis ("Jack") Neylan, onetime political and financial reporter, was until 1937 lord high chancellor of the Hearst empire. Before that (1911-17) he was chairman of the State finance body which put California on a budget. For eleven years he has been a regent of the University of California. He is a director of great National City Bank (Manhattan). Nowadays he commutes to San Francisco from his ranch in the mountains to the south. Last fortnight Jack Neylan appeared before...
...editor of the San Francisco Chronicle thought and said that Jack Neylan must be pulling legs. So Mr. Neylan wrote a letter which clearly established the Neylan Plan as a perfectly serious though startling proposal, reminiscent in its visionary aspect of Henry Ford's high-minded Peace Ship effort of 23 years...
...When Jack Neylan gets an idea, into it he sinks his teeth. This week he was trying out the Neylan Plan on the hardest-boiled top men of the U. S., politicians mostly excluded. His first finding was obvious: pigs is pigs. Giving away five billions sounds like lunacy...
Dave Burt, Langdon Gilkey, Walt Muther, and Jack Stewart were the singles victors. John Palfrey and Chet Legg dropped close matches...
Scoring their second win in three starts, Coach Jack Barnaby's racquetmen downed Pennsylvania 7 to 2 on the Divinity Courts yesterday taking four singles and three doubles encounters...