Word: jay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With vigorous Chief Jay N. ("Ding") Darling of the U. S. Biological Survey alarmed at the dwindling U. S. supply of wild duck, his agents have lately redoubled their efforts to smash the 'legging ring. They have got no help from natives. Eastern Shore merchants are notoriously incurious about the source of their customers' cash. But when Federal men arrested Tom Reed and one Bill Powell they were sure they had the Al Capones of ducklegging. Last week Tom Reed, a clean-cut, well-dressed young man, went on trial in Federal Court at Norfolk, Va. Trapper Reed...
...conclusion of the debate, John Andrew Sullivan, Jr. was announced as the winner of the Coolidge Prize of $25 awarded annually to the Freshman making the best speech in the trials for the H-Y-P Freshman debate. Jay W. Kaufman and Benjamin were awarded honorable mention for the prize. Kaufmann and Sullivan debated at Yale last evening with the negative Harvard team...
...second team consisting of Jay W. Kaufmann, Abraham J. Lehman, and John A. Sullivan, Jr. will journey to Yale on the same day to defend the negative against the Blue orators, the announcement also said...
Down to Tuskegee last fortnight went the Institute's trustees, led by their white chairman, William Jay Schieffelin of New York City. They hoped to persuade Dr. Moton to stay on but, if he refused, their minds were made up. He did refuse. Last week Tuskegee learned that Frederick Douglass Patterson, 34, would be its third president...
...Agricultural Department, was being groomed to succeed him. One night a Negro lunatic murdered Dr. Atkins. The trustees turned their thoughts to others: Sociologist Charles Spurgeon Johnson of the Rosenwald Foundation; Channing Tobias, Y. M. C. A. worker; President Claude A. Barnett of the Associated Negro Press; Emmett Jay Scott, Secretary-Treasurer of Howard University. Once they offered the job to President Benjamin F. Hubert of Georgia State Industrial College but Dr. Hubert considered...