Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator Scott Lucas, loping along confidently in Illinois wooing the downstate farmers, suddenly glanced back and saw his Chicago citadel in danger. Normally, Cook County Boss Jake Arvey could be expected to give him a fine 200,000 Democratic majority in the big city. But now, hanging lumpily on Lucas' political neck, was a bland, white-haired police captain named Daniel A. Gilbert...
After that, the fans settled back in their seats to. see if big Jake Kramer, 29, was still the best player in the world. Little (5 ft. 7 in., 150 Ibs.) Pancho Segura had been playing in pro preliminaries for two years while Kramer was knocking over the 1948-49 headliners, Bobby Riggs and Pancho Gonzales.* Segura had finally earned a shot at Kramer by winning the pro title last spring...
Bandy-legged, Ecuador-born Pancho Segura had Jake's number from the first. He covered court like a bird dog in a chicken coop, took the sting out of Kramer's big serve, whacked his own two-handed forehand drives into the far corners and outguessed Kramer in nearly every rally. It was all over in less than an hour. Score: 6-2, 6-2, 6-1. Explained a somewhat surprised Kramer: "Pancho knocked me down in the first set and never let me get off the floor." Pancho, who gets only a salary, to Kramer...
Republican candidates well know that, since the day of Roosevelt, they have to carry downstate Illinois by big margins to offset the Democratic majorities ground out by Jake Arvey's Chicago machine.* With spellbinding oratory, Republican Dirksen banged away at Communism, Acheson, inflation and wasteful foreign programs. "Lenin said, 'Someday we are going to force the U.S. to spend itself into destruction,' " cried Dirksen. "In the name of God, what are we doing? When will we wake...
...Jake Mintz, co-manager of Ezzard Charles, said today the heavyweight champion definitely would defend his title in Cincinnati November 30 against Freddie Beshore or some other opponent...