Word: jay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then ensued what observers described as "an orgy of baccarat." Itinerant gamblers for miles around, learning that Dashing Jack was at the "shoe," flocked to and swamped Frank Jay Gould's place. They came in morning coats, they came in knickers, some came in trunks, bathing suits, beach robes. One deplorable incident during the rush was the unwitting exclusion of Prince Habib Lotfallah who appeared attired in pyjamas after the management, of necessity, had turned away all patrons in beach costume...
Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley. .LL.D...
...Silly and Worse." Senator Johnson, alert, tripped Secretary Stimson on one of the precedents he had quoted by showing that President Washington in 1796 withheld the Jay Treaty papers not from the Senate but from the House of Representatives. Declared Senator Johnson of Secretary Stimson: "It is silly and worse for an individual to contend that he can put into the public record a part of the correspondence bearing on the Treaty and then, holding up his hands in holy horror, pretend that the giving of all of it to his partner in treaty making would be incompatible with...
...Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley chose, he might order U. S. soldiers thus...
...Over the weekend President Hoover went to the mountain camp of Jay Cooke III, Philadelphia banker, near Williamsport, Pa. He fished with indifferent success in the cold waters of Larry's Creek. On his way home to Washington he stopped unexpectedly for Sunday service at a little rural Methodist church at Liverpool, Pa., drew a great crowd, dropped a tightly folded $5 hill into the collection plate...