Word: jam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This setting of the stage was enough to jam 168 reporters into the President's press conference two days later. With a tight-lipped grin, Truman said he had nothing to announce, but he understood there were questions. The Washington Post's Edward Folliard opened the show: "Chairman McKinney told us you are planning to take drastic action toward a Government housecleaning...
...Starlight Roof of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week, Cinemactress Ginger Rogers chirped out this call to American women. It was the 56th annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers. The presence of Ginger Rogers, addressing a room jam-packed with delegates' wives (and a few furtive men), wasn't the only new thing about this year's N.A.M. convention. Also present were 296 top industrialists brought by ECA from 18 foreign countries...
...large turnout of donors, and a shortage of Red Cross workers, combined to give the Red Cross and Phillips Brooks House a busy afternoon yesterday. Despite the jam, 407 pints of blood were collected, bringing the total number...
...Colonels had walloped national champion West Virginia the previous year and prior to the 1921 Harvard contest had beaten powerhouse Crimson and run several lesser lights into the ground. The day of the game, in fact, the CRIMSON predicted a "battle royal" and 43,000 fans didn't jam the Stadium to see a rout. They didn...
This type of game will not jam the Stadium every Saturday. The University cannot expect to make a million on it as some of its rivals do. Other methods will always have to be used to help support the ideal "athletics for all" program...