Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national committeeman. The election of Howell-backed Talmadge to the governorship forced the Journal into a political back seat, widened the No Man's Land between the publishers. So savagely did the Journal attack Governor Talmadge last summer that that "cracker" politician angrily referred to Editor Cohen as "Jake the Jew,"* urged his supporters to cancel their Journal subscriptions, switch to the Constitution. Crowning outrage to the Grays last week was Governor Talmadge's rude seizure of the Democratic National Committeemanship left vacant by Editor Cohen's death...
...CAST Bill, a Harvard man of the right sort George Whitney '37 "Stopper" Carter, a friend of his Charles Bellows '37 Charlotte Peter Jopling '35 Dean Bounce William M. Hunt, II '36 Fish, a Harvard man Arthur M. Jones, Jr. '35 Wasp Anderson Page '37 Jake F. Sewall Gardner '37 Dean Surley Robert Grinnell '36 Mrs. Murphy, a goody, one of the best Lawrence, Nichols '35 Mrs. O'Shaughnessey, her crony Gaspar G. Bacon, Jr. '37 Mrs. Bounce, nee Wholeworthy Walter Birge '35 Mary Bounce, her daughter Francis E. Johnson '35 Faunce, a Butler Henry Lyman '37 Mrs. Elwell Myron...
...same office along with those same newshawks listening to Mr. Early's pronouncements. A strapping 6 ft. 2, he was just a plain high-school-educated newshawk covering police courts, bankers' conventions, scientific meetings for the Chicago Tribune until one day in 1930. Then another Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, was shot in Chicago. Publisher McCormick of the Tribune put Boettiger on the case. He stuck to it, wrote the Tribune's stories on it, right up to the capture and conviction of Leo V. ("Buster") Brothers (TIME, Jan. 19, 1931). In 1932 when Franklin D. Roosevelt flew...
Died. Herman Fetzer ("Jake Falstaff"), 35, fat, bearded columnist for the Cleveland Press; of pneumonia; in Cleveland...
...Over the stadium at Soldiers Field a plane wrote in smoke: "H. vs. P. Good friends." After the game, the two squads dined together. Accompanied by such amenities, the first Harvard v. Princeton football game in eight years found Harvard just where it was in 1926, when Princeton's Jake Slagle ran wild and his teammates were accused of using seal rings. A recovered fumble gave Harvard's Fred Moseley a chance to reach Princeton's 49-yd. line in the second quarter. That was the only time Harvard had the ball in its opponent's territory. A versatile Princeton...