Word: jay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wrong Jay Holmes...
...have read with much interest your article in the Aug. 31 issue of TIME regarding my alleged fishing exploits. Like the report of Mark Twain's death it was somewhat exaggerated. Obviously you have confused me with the other Holmes whose name, like my nickname, is Jay and who is. as I am not, the grandson of the late Charles Fleischmann (yeast). This confusion of our two names is not unprecedented but, as you can imagine, it is annoying...
Resolutely across the Pacific last month plowed the Dollar liner President Cleveland, bearing as its proudest passenger tall, straight, handsome Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley. With his beauteous blonde wife Ruth, he was traveling on the highest executive mission of his Cabinet career. When the Hurleys reached Tokyo. U. S. Ambassador Forbes entertained them Japanese style. They took off their shoes and sat on the floor. Between courses they watched geisha girls dance. While Mrs. Hurley, well-traveled daughter of an admiral, nimbly manipulated her chopsticks, her Oklahoma husband had to fumble with a fork. At Shanghai, despite...
...seek aid from President Herbert Hoover last week went a committee which included President Rees Edgar Tulloss of Wittenberg College (Springfield. Ohio), President George Leslie Omwake of Ursinus College (Collegeville, Pa.), Dr. Norman Jay Gould Wickey, executive secretary of the Board of Education of the United Lutheran Church, and Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, onetime (1907-17) president of Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio). President Hoover agreed to serve as a member of the national sponsoring committee of the Movement, to make a speech for it over the radio in November...
...sooner had the casino managers won this round than the Society of Sea Baths of Monaco, operators of the world-famed Monte Carlo Casino, opened a new establishment at the water's edge to compete with Frank Jay Gould's tremendously successful Palais de la Mediterranee at Nice. Besides the gambling rooms and the bathing beach Mr. Gould's establishment includes a five-story hotel, several restaurants and a floating theatre anchored off the shore. Two 15,000-ton steamers were chartered last week to anchor in front of the Monte Carlo Casino, to serve as hotels...