Word: jay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week covered a distance equivalent to a journey from San Diego to Chicago. As they set off around the Coliseum for New York, favorites to win were Cousin "Libby" Hoover, an Italian team of Gene Vizena and John Rosasco, a deaf-mute named Jay Levy who has taught his waitress-partner to talk with her hands, the Bogashes, bearded John Devitt. Exhibiting one minor but inflexible characteristic of certain tree-sitting, dancing, walking and roller-skating marathoners, Devitt vowed not to shave until he was leading the event. Next spring Promoter Seltzer plans a Roller Derby in New York...
Died. Rev. Dr. Jay Thomas Stocking, 65, moderator of the General Council of Congregational and Christian Churches; of pneumonia; at Newton Center, Mass...
Founded in 1908 by the late Jay G. Woodworth, professor of Geology, the station was housed for twenty-five years of continuous recording in the basement of the Museum. When it began to record small shocks every time classes met, the department decided to move it to the peace and quiet of Oak Ridge, near the Astronomical Observatory. Recordings were discontinued in the Museum in 1933, and are now carried on entirely at Oak Ridge. A new vertical machine has recently been added to the four horizontal ones brought from the old station...
Meantime Secretary of Commerce Hoover was handling his own press relations with surprising skill. A picked group of Washington correspondents, headed by Jay Hayden of the Detroit News and Roy Roberts of the Kansas City Star, went regularly to the Hoover office to be treated to encyclopedic and immensely helpful disquisitions on current national and international problems. Their mentor's name did not appear in the resulting dispatches, but the grateful newsmen saw to it that the Secretary of Commerce's light was not hidden under a bushel...
Freddy Ayer, Jr. burly Jayvee player, and Peter Jay, who played in several Varsity matches, are expected to keep the first stringers galloping to keep their posts...