Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election next year would be helped by all the publicity. This was most displeasing to General Chairman Kelly, who wanted to be his own toastmaster and introduce the guest of honor, Adlai Stevenson. Kelly resigned in a huff. That was a good opening for Iowa's State Chairman Jake More. Knowing exactly who the good guys and the bad guys are in the minds of many Iowa voters, More roared that "city slickers" had tried to keep lowan Gillette off the program...
...commissioner-Clive Akers: "Friends, most of you know me and you know my record. My grandfathers were Jake (J.P.) Akers and Alamander (Squint) Martin...
...very perfection long kept him from popularity. Not until he was close to the end of his career did he fire the imagination of the fans, who always like a slugger better than a boxing perfectionist. Beaten once on points by Jake La-Motta (in the second of their six matches), Robinson lost his second bout and his middleweight championship to Britain's Randy Turpin in 1951. Some 60,000 turned up at the Polo Grounds for the rematch, the first really big gate Robinson ever attracted. Battered and bleeding, his timing way off, Robinson made a dramatic tenth...
Like many another airframe maker, Grumman diversified into such strange lines as aluminum canoes and dinghies. To help pay the overhead, "Jake" Swirbul snared contracts to overhaul Navy planes and to service foreign airlines planes. For the civilian airplane market, Grumman's Widgeon amphibians were refitted for executive use, and Grumman began making its fast, versatile Mallards and the Albatross, an air-sea rescue plane. Swirbul's tactics succeeded in keeping the company narrowly in the black. By 1948 Chairman...
...Even Jake Arvey could hardly classify usually Democratic Arizona as reactionary. Yet Arizona was electing a complete set of G.O.P. officials, from President on down, for the first time in the state's history. Biggest upset was the commanding lead of Barry Goldwater, Phoenix store owner and diligent Republican campaigner, over U.S. Senator Ernest McFarland, the Democratic majority leader in the Senate...