Word: jay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hall and some 500 delegates to a special convention were in Cleveland last week to save their union's ninth and last life. Provisional President Roland Jay Thomas, Vice Presidents Hall, Richard Frankensteen and Wyndham Mortimer, Secretary-Treasurer George Addes, many another feudist professed the utmost anxiety to salvage what seceding President Homer Martin had left of their union when he split away last month (TIME, Feb. 6). But not one volunteered to sacrifice his job to that end. One & all were anxious to better themselves, preferably at the expense of fellow officers...
Craftiest player in the U. S., and perhaps in the world, was the late Jay Gould, whose father imported the world's best professionals to teach him the game and who was supreme in this country from 1906 through 1925. Ogden Phipps is the game's current U. S. ranking amateur...
Followers of Communist Oppositionist Jay Lovestone yelped that they had been sold out to the most reactionary elements in the union, threatened to desert en masse. Meantime Henry Ford's unionized competitors resigned themselves to battle not with a union but between two unions claiming the same name, same contracts, same prerogatives under the Wagner...
...care of, with Frank McKechnie and Ted Meredith in the 440, and Bill Young, John Dane, Henry Stewart, and Bob Brundage in the half. Brundage, a recent convert to the 880, leaves the broad-jump badly weakened. Leaders in a large group of milers and two-milers are Bob Jay, Charlie Robbins, Fred Bradley, Sam Worthen, Dan Jones, Tom McElligott, Wally Fenn, and John Sopka...
...kicked out U. A. W.'s five vice presidents and all but nine of its 24 executive board members, Mr. Martin had just been deserted by five more boardmen and so many local officers that everybody lost count. The deserters, of course, went over to Acting President Roland Jay...