Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jake Hayes took the top prize with a tale about a snake he killed and skinned to make a belt. It turned out the snake had swallowed 13 eggs, eleven chickens, nine guineas and a billy goat. For some reason, most of the stories seemed to be about things that had swallowed things. This line of thought seemed much appreciated, especially by children, who listened slack-jawed, accepting the fictional terrors of nature as gospel...
...Jake Butcher wiped away tears as he stood last week with his wife and four children in a Knoxville court. The room was not far from the site of the 1982 ; World's Fair, which he made a success, and the gleaming headquarters building of the United American Bank, where he had been chairman. "I want to apologize for what I've done," said Butcher, 49. "I pray for the opportunity to try to restore or right some of the wrongs . . . My little boy there, nine years old, thinks I'm going to be gone 20 years." But Federal Judge...
...corporate intrigue and downright crime. The offenses make up a catalog of chicanery: cheating on Government defense contracts, check-writing fraud, bogussecurities dealing, tax dodges, insider trading and money laundering. Among the culprits: General Electric, E.F. Hutton, Bank of Boston and General Dynamics. Once powerful and respected executives, including Jake Butcher, the Tennessee banker, and Paul Thayer, the former LTV chairman, are now facing the humbling prospect of spending several years in prison...
...misused depositors' money and juggled the books to cover up losses. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation estimates that 50% of the 79 bank failures that occurred last year resulted at least in part from criminal conduct. Among the casualties were the eleven banks in Tennessee and Kentucky controlled by Jake Butcher. He pleaded guilty last month to charges of misusing his banks' money to make illegal loans to himself and associates. Butcher is awaiting a sentence that could amount to 20 years in prison...
...image of journalists as a hard-drinking tribe is almost wearisomely familiar. It has been reinforced in books and movies by characters from Jake Barnes, the hard-boiled news correspondent of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, to Lew Marsh, the boozing reporter that James Cagney plays in the 1951 film Come Fill the Cup. Even TV's Lou Grant & Co. regularly restored their spirits with spirits at the local hangout...