Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grumman not only turned out rugged planes that, riddled with holes, brought pilots safely home, but it turned them out fast. Its production boss was brusque and burly Leon ("Jake") Swirbul. Under his prodding, the Grumman plant, amid the potato fields of Long Island, N.Y., had more the atmosphere of the front line than of a factory. It turned out more than 17,000 aircraft for the Navy, in March 1945 produced 658, a record for a single month. As executive vice president, Swirbul shared a small, unpretentious office with President Leroy ("Roy") Grumman. Working in shirtsleeves, Jake...
...nearly two years of a most expert and relentless pursuit of the Democratic presidential nomination, a campaign so finely machined, so thoroughly organized, so carefully fashioned for a single purpose that professional politicians fairly mopped their brows and goggled at what they saw. Said Illinois' old political pro Jake Arvey (who could scarcely cling any longer to Adlai Stevenson's star) : "Kennedy's got this country laid out like one big switchboard. He knows what's going on in every state, in every local issue. He's tough and decisive and determined. I marvel...
...York City, two of the party's toughest old pros, Pennsylvania Governor David Lawrence and Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio, held a high powwow (also present: onetime Illinois Kingmaker Jake Arvey) dedicated to the proposition that primaries are eyewash. De Sapio, like his good friend Harry Truman, favors the Symington candidacy. Lawrence let it be known that his heart still belongs to Adlai Stevenson ("the most capable man in either party to be President"), but those who talked to Lawrence thought they detected brain waves for Symington. Both bosses entertain strong private doubts about a fellow Catholic...
...Tommy the Cork was a fairly familiar name to the FPC. Back in 1957, Tennessee Gas had been granted more than an $8,000,000 rate increase. For Corcoran's help in getting the increase, Tennessee Gas paid his law firm $60,444. The Chicago law firm of Jake Arvey, Illinois political kingpin, Democratic national committeeman, and an Adlai Stevenson stalwart in 1952 and 1956, got $15,000. Since neither was listed as attorney in the case, the FPC examiner who had recommended the increase wanted to know what they had done for the money. Said Tennessee Gas Vice...
...only Dartmouth unit that can really skate with the varsity is the veteran first line of Mike Hollern, Jake Haertl and Bob Moore. When the Indian's second trio of Bob Harvey, Warren Loomis and Charles Ritchie and third line of Derek Buntain, Phil Roy, and James Richards venture out, the Crimson should be able to apply the pressure...