Word: jam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time this year President Hoover & friends motored to the Rapidan camp for the weekend. Gone were the effects of last Autumn's Drought. The President caught the limit of 20 trout. Driving back to Washington his motor was stalled for 40 min. in a Sunday traffic jam over the Potomac bridge. Motorists greeted him with amused cheers and applause. When an old Ford, with an old Negro in it and a potato plugging the gas tank, stalled beside the way, the President smiled...
Exposition, Although not complete when opened (few expositions are), that at Buenos Aires last week was a most creditable performance. Featured was British transport apparatus of all sorts: cars, motorboats, planes, railway equipment. English jam, rolls, chocolate, pickles and crackers were also prominent. Wondering South Americans strolled through a "mimic London," admired the Tower, London Bridge, and something called "A Bit of Piccadilly...
...important legislation until President Hoover acted. This would force the President to convene the next Congress on March 4 in order to get money to carry on the Government. The Couzens tactics brought the Senate almost to a standstill. Alarmed, Senator Reed telephoned the White House, broke the jam with the declaration: "The President has authorized me to say that it is his intention to return the bonus bill to Congress the middle of next week with a message giving his reasons for a veto...
...knowledge floated by this too sudden immerston in the Pierian Springs are unpleasant to see hartily regurgitated over a cup of coffee. Whereas a three hour examination can only serve to uncover the lack of knowledge rather than its presence. Wheres these examinations are thus only methods to jam the wind-pipes of the unwilling. Whereas the resulting mental dyspopsis has never yet produced a Carlyle and Whereas, dyspopsis or no dyspopsis, everyone is pretty well fed up: the Vagabond hereby inaugurates his first active crusade. The Examination must go. Alone he can do nothing. As a Gandhiary incendiary, this...
...unmannered fellows is Amateur Golfer & Sportsmen, a smart, tasteful magazine of regional appeal in the Northwest. It was started in 1927 chiefly as a hobby, and partly because Brother Roscoe Fawcett was onetime state golf champion. Whiz Bang had competition of a sort in the older, equally unchaste Jim Jam Jems. When, in 1928, Jim Jam Jems' Editor Sam Clark attacked him in his magazine, Captain Billy bought him out. There after came Modern Mechanics and Inventions (later sued by Popular Mechanics on its title, and by Fritz von Opel, the German rocketeer, for an article concerning him) ; Startling...