Word: jay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley exhibited to friends in the War Department a cut lip. Said he: "I'm teaching my seven-year-old son [Wilson] how to box. Today he lammed...
Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley was named the Commission's chairman and with him sat the Secretaries of the Navy, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, the Attorney General, four Senators, four Representatives. In March the Commission held a short series of hearings at which it went straight to the economics of war. Last week it returned to the task of devising ways & means of conducting the next armed struggle more efficiently, more economically, without profit to anyone...
...campaign to "humanize Hoover" last week went on the air. To the White House went Jay Jerome Williams, oldtime newsman, who as Edwin Alger now works as a "radio reporter" for National Broadcasting Co.He arranged with Hoover Secretary Joslin, chief humanizer. to spend a day about the White House, interview the President. Reporter Williams arrived at 7:45 a. m., talked with the President for 20 min., roamed about the house, sat in the Lincoln study, played with the six presidential dogs, watched the Hoover grandchildren from a distance, departed at 6 p. m. Last week in a "folksy" broadcast...
Well remembered by radicals is the "old" Freeman edited by Albert Jay Nock. It kept a circulation of about 10,000 until 1924, when Mrs. Francis Neilson decided that she could play "angel" no longer. Last year the magazine was revived as The New Freeman by Peter Fireman, a Russian-born chemist who came to the U. S. 49 years ago and amassed moderate wealth in the paint business (Magnetic Pigment Co. of Trenton...
...night last week at the railroad station of Tuskegee, Ala. With dark faces shining, 1,600 students of Tuskegee Institute cheered, hollered and sang Hallelujah as two special cars brought trustees, alumni & friends to celebrate Tuskegee's Golden Jubilee. Came Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, Chairman William Jay Schieffelin of Tuskegee's board of trustees, Canon Anson Phelps Stokes of Washington Cathedral, Manhattan Banker Paul Moritz Warburg, and representatives of 24 Governors. President Hoover was to speak to them over the radio, on "Race Relations...