Word: jeffriesism
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At 73, ex-Heavyweight Champion Jim Jeffries, who lives quietly on his farming and dairy ranch near Burbank, Calif., came out of his shell for the holiday season to serve as the town's official Santa Claus.
In Detroit, Mayor Edward J. Jeffries sought a fifth term with new backers. During three previous campaigns he had been bitterly opposed by the U.A.W.-C.I.O.; this time the union gave him its support.
But Jeffries' opponent, Councilman Eugene I. van Antwerp, complained loud & long about the price Mayor Jeffries had paid for his U.A.W. blessing. Some two months ago, he charged, Mayor Jeffries had obligingly looked the other way when U.A.W. used roughhouse tactics in an organization drive. Police sent to halt...
Last week Detroit citizens voted Jeffries out and Van Antwerp in. The U.A.W. score: no runs, no hits, four errors.
Last week, over 7,500 poems later, Anne found proof that her folksy sentiment had won a public of its own. Fifteen hundred of her fans gathered in the Masonic Temple for a silver anniversary. There were special tables full of people whose causes she had supported: the Salvation Army...