Word: jam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...phantasmagoria in the system of University Officials seems to be a complete jam of cars all the way from the barrier to the circle in front of Eliot House. That did not happen last year. It does not happen in the less spacious parking streets of Cambridge. If the Apted men can enforce the present ban, certainly with the help of a few marking lines on the pavement, they could cannot ensure the ban, which is the more likely story, they might as well save themselves their much-demanded time and effort...
...State R. Walton Moore, Chairman Sam D. McReynolds of the House Foreign Affairs Committee to a solemn White House conference. Siding with the President and State Department for a "may" embargo, House Chairman McReynolds entered the White House bristling with defiance of the Senate. "They can't jam unsatisfactory neutrality legislation down my throat," he shouted...
...Smith of South Carolina. Another South Carolinian, Franklin Roosevelt's good friend James F. Byrnes, jumped in with an amendment to the Third Deficiency Bill requiring a 12? loan on cotton. To get enough votes to ensure victory the Cotton Senators teamed up with the Wheat Senators, helped jam into the bill a 90? Government loan on wheat. Such a rampant combination in the Senate wrecked the plan for Congressional adjournment Saturday night...
...bristling Italian Eritrea, the French naval sloop Dumont d'Urville, mounting five and one-half inch guns, ominously arrived last week, anchored to command the French harbor of Djibouti, connected by rail with Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa. All week freight cars from Addis Ababa were jam-packed with goods shipped out by frightened foreign merchants in Ethiopia who closed their stores, hoped to keep their goods in storage on French soil until better times. French Premier Pierre Laval, realizing the extreme delicacy of French Somaliland's situation, appointed last week as its Governor General his close...
...distinguishing himself in Boston last week, Canner David Hippie was likewise distinguishing himself in Chicago. A 45-year-old bachelor who runs a fruit farm near Elgin, Ill., Canner Hippie, competing with 100 women in the Cook County Fair, got first prize for a jar of his blackberry jam...