Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take the lead in luring Justice Douglas out of his marble building. It was touched off last week by Washington Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop. Their story, which went scrupulously un-denied, said that the Big Bosses-New York's Ed Flynn, Chicago's Ed Kelly and Jake Arvey, New Jersey's Frank Hague, et al.-had agreed on Douglas and had sent word to him that he could have the No. 2 spot if he wanted it. Justice Douglas' answer was not revealed...
...State of Washington's Walla Walla penitentiary, Negro Jake Bird, 46, about to die on the gallows for the ax-murder of a Tacoma woman, won a 60-day reprieve by confessing that he could "clear up" 44 other murders...
...ever get him over a barrel," said Big Jake Kramer, "I'll beat him fifty straight matches without easing off." But things didn't work that way. Jake got the jitters in his pro tennis debut at Madison Square Garden, and lost badly to Pro Champ Bobby Riggs (TIME, Jan. 5). In Pittsburgh, Jake caught a cold, and lost again to Bobby. Then Jake got back some of his confidence by winning match No. 3 in Cleveland. Last week, after their tenth match in the tenth city on their U.S. tour, Jake was beginning to look better. Bobby...
...South Orange, N.J., Jake for the first time had played the aggressive "big game" that made him the world's best amateur. Said Jake later: "The audience was down close and I could feel them pulling for me. They rooted me in." He beat Riggs 3-6, 7-5, 6-2. It wasn't a matter of getting wise to Bobby's cagey game, he said, because he always plays his own strength rather than an opponent's weakness. But he did give Riggs credit for one thing: "Bobby is able to adjust himself...
Shrewd Boss Jake Arvey had wanted to line up a more seasoned vote-getting combination. But Senator Scott Lucas had refused to run for the governorship; as the Senate's only Midwestern Democrat, he thought he could do his party more good in Washington. Chicago's able Businessman-Mayor Martin Kennelly had also turned down the governorship post...