Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...popular magazine would touch them if she did, because of the amount of liquor involved. In our March 1943 issue we ran a story by Craig Rice . . . which featured that hard-drinking little criminal lawyer, John J. Malone, whom readers of Craig Rice's books will remember as Jake Justus' boon and bar companion. In other words, he is no teetotaler at any time...
...Truman had nominated George Allen to RFC, and George weathered a Senate committee's scrutiny. But Funnyman George hardly added luster to the Administration. And when bumbling Jake Vardaman, whom the President had named to the Federal Reserve Board, was called before the Senate, God only knew what would happen...
...said, a photographer on the staff of a Manhattan newspaper. His original name was Jake Braunowitz, but he called himself John Brown so that his colleagues would not know that he was Jewish. He still lived with his family in Brooklyn, but he never allowed any of them to come near his office Once, when he was with friends in the restaurant where his sister," Rosannah, worked, John pretended not to recognize...
...Jake Vardaman was born in Mississippi, the son of the late rabble-rousing Senator James K. Vardaman. He studied law at the University of Mississippi and Millsaps College, finally moved to St. Louis. There he was banker, lawyer and head of a shoe company. An artillery captain in World War I (not in Harry Truman's battery), he joined the Naval Reserve in 1939, was on Okinawa when the President called him home to be naval aide. Since then he has been a constant White House adviser...
...another fat poke. He had just sold a claim to Campbell Red Lake Gold Mines and split $800,000 in cash and stock with three partners. (Much of the credit, he felt, was due an 80-year-old Cree Indian named Jake whom he considers his good-luck charm.) This time Prospector Campbell invested in more durable things than wheat futures. Among his new acquisitions: two planes (with a private pilot), a fully equipped yacht, a saxophone (which his wife abhorred "because it makes the wolves howl"), and the first player piano to be brought into the Red Lake district...