Word: jay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...JOURNAL OF THESE DAYS-Albert Jay Nock-Morrow ($2.75). Of the few One of the few writers who hold themselves aloof from the contemporary scene, Albert Jay Nock is one of the loftiest. Like the anarchist who enjoyed his freedom from all political allegiances, Bystander Nock is in the comfortable position of running no danger that his superior wisdom in economics, politics et al. will be put to a test in practice. Not given to the loud laugh, he has spent much of his time recording in his journal his amusement and disgust at his fellow-countrymen's behavior...
...rest of the cast are as follows: Judge Biggs will be played by George V. Goulder '36; Mrs. Biggs by George P. Winship, Jr. '36; Corporal Casey by Jay G. Rice '35; Colonel Lawton by John S. Howe '36; Captain Paul Wybert by Robert G. Reed '36; Mamie by Joseph D. Fisher '35; and Johnnie Bangs by William G. Cahan...
...right arm. burned by mustard gas, cited for bravery. After the Armistice while stationed in the Rhine he got into a drunken brawl in a Coblenz cabaret. He was court-martialed and sentenced to five years imprisonment. The sentence was reduced to 15 months confinement at Fort Jay where he was dishonorably discharged in July 1920. Two years later Secretary of War Weeks permitted him to re-enlist to serve out his term, get an honorable discharge and thus qualify for war-risk insurance and the Bonus. He re-enlisted in March 1922 at Camp Dix. On Sept. 1 Private...
...young man he used to talk to himself at night about his schemes, of which the suave ruthlessness in crushing competition is still a byword in U. S. business. These plutocrats sometimes had to wait a generation-seldom more-before high society accepted them. "A Jay Gould, widely feared, might be excluded from a fashionable yacht club, but his son George was easily admitted. The profane and scornful old parvenu Cornelius Vander Bilt was unthinkable in a parlor: but his grandson William K. Vanderbilt would see all doors open to him in time," The Author. In 35 years, Matthew Josephson...
Referee: Jay Ricks...