Word: jam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boss's Knee. In the 1932 Republican Convention, when the Hoover crowd was trying to jam through the vice-presidential nomination of Charlie Curtis, "a voice from the floor shouted in answer to the roll call: "Pennsylvania casts 75 votes for General Edward Martin." The vote, as everyone knew, was just a maneuver. Pennsylvania came around to Curtis when the Pennsylvania bosses got what they wanted frolri the National Committee. But it gave Ed Martin his first brief and tentative spin into the national scene...
...there was no falling off in east-to-west transatlantic travel. The backlog in Britain of Pan American and American Overseas Airlines is so.big that passengers without influence cannot book a seat for New York till the end of next February. The jam on British airlines is equally great. When passengers are bumped off planes, they frequently squat in British air terminals for days & nights until they get a plane seat...
Whatever O'Neill's motives, he and his wife went to Manhattan last year, taking little except their toothbrushes and their big, indispensable collections of books and records (which jam two of the six rooms of their present apartment...
...Jam, Three Jobs. Descendant of New England farmers and tanners, Conant is a registered Republican, who prefers to keep publicly neutral in political campaigns (he was for Al Smith in 1928); he usually comes out for issues (like an interventionist foreign policy) rather than...
...advance his Jeffersonian ideas of equal educational opportunity and what he calls a fluid, classless society, Conant has become a vigorous essayist. It got him into one jam with the Corporation. Conant's "Wanted: American Radicals," in the May 1943 Atlantic Monthly, "urged the need of the American radical not because I wish to give a blanket endorsement to his views, but because I see the necessity of reinvigorating a neglected aspect of our . . . development." Conant said that "the kernel of [this] radical philosophy" would be a "demand to confiscate [by constitutional methods] all property once a generation...