Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vice President & Mrs. John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner last week dined at the White House (he in white tie & tails). Contrary to report, Cactus Jack likes the party that the President gives him every year. He attended in 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938. Top members of Congress (Borah, Sheppard, McNary, Sabath, Rayburn, Boland, etc. etc.) were there. But local chit-chat artists were truly swamped two nights later when the Roosevelts entertained the 76th Congress, swamped by the new faces presented and their political implications. At the Congressional Reception, Jim Farley held court in a receiving line...
Thanks for Everything (Adolphe Menjou, Jack Haley, Jack Oakie; TIME...
...hatters, who consider twelve hats exactly the right number for the well-dressed man, picked the U. S.'s twelve best-hatted* men: Marshall Field III, Jack Dempsey, Herbert Bayard Swope, Adolphus Busch III, Grover Aloysius Whalen, Robert Cobb, Frank Michler Chapman Jr., William Gaxton, Bing Crosby, Tyrone Power Jr., Fred Astaire, James Melton...
...they formed a partnership, Scoville & Co. (now called McCarthy & Scoville). Broker McCarthy was one of the organizers of the Chicago Board of Trade Clearing House 13 years ago. Aside from Business, his only interest is his family in suburban Glencoe. His pride & joy is his son Jack, who was a Notre Dame halfback...
...large. With the Japanese now in control of the tea provinces, Chinese tea exports have been jumped, prices cut sharply under that of Empire tea. And Empire prices may soon be forced up if India's Congress President Subhas Chandra Bose succeeds in his current campaign to jack up tea laborers' wages, now 15 shillings a month for men, ten for women, three for children...