Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Onetime Middleweight Boxing Champion Jake LaMotta, 34, now a Miami saloonkeeper, drew a six-month jail stretch and a $500 fine on raps of helping a 14-year-old vice doll hustle in his bar and running his joint for a lewd purpose...
...World War I audiences. When he wasn't twanging out patter, he pyramided cigar boxes on his chin and twirled hats through the air as "Freddy James, the World's Worst Juggler." At times he also did a ventriloquist's bit with a dummy named Jake. He had outdistanced the drag-off hooks with which managers yanked booed performers into the wings, but he was still patronizingly tagged as a "coast defender," i.e., a smalltime vaudevillian who played only Boston and such outlying provinces as Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont...
...National Committeemen buff up their strategy. As the committeeman from a big state that shows steady Democratic inroads (and may be due for 37 House seats instead of the present 30, under the 1961 reapportionment), Ziffren felt emboldened to make a major suggestion. The suggestion, co-fathered by Committeemen Jake Arvey of Illinois* and David Lawrence of Pennsylvania: a new 17-member committee, made up of non-National Committeemen to advise the party...
...Yardlings, Wes Hildreth placed second to Martin with a time of 19:00, and Call placed third in 19:06. Jake Slepian placed fourth with a time...
Iowa (24) : State Chairman Jake More has come out for Harriman, thereby helping Ave pick up the Kefauver pieces, but Iowa's delegation stands 14 for Stevenson, 7½ for Harriman, 2½ undecided...