Word: jeffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jeff Dickson is a suave, dark-haired gentleman of 40 who went to France in 1917 with the 17th U. S. Engineers. Because he had been a newsreel cameraman, he was put to work filming cinemas for the military archives. During the St. Mihiel offensive, he perched his camera on a hill near enough to the scene of action to get himself wounded. After the War, Photographer Dickson got himself demobilized in France so he could go to Abyssinia and take pictures of lions. He also photographed war scenes among the Riffs. Then he drifted back to Paris. Armed with...
...their agility with the sliding boards. The eccentric rogues, for example, draw most of their laughs by means of expert and unpredictable twists and turns and leaps and hops. They however, would probably be funny in any circumstances, being a perfect team on the order of Mutt and Jeff...
Professor Black, "Electric Circuits," Jeff. Phys...
...Dear Jeff." From Boston youngish T. (for Thomas) Jefferson Coolidge went to Washington to become Undersecretary of the Treasury in March 1934, to lend the New Deal his technical knowledge of finance on the long road of borrowing that lay ahead. A descendant of Thomas Jefferson but only the remotest kin, if any, to Calvin Coolidge, "Jeff" Coolidge, despite his staid New England background, qualified for service in the New Deal by his independence in politics, by his vote for Roosevelt in 1932. In the Treasury his job was figuring out the terms on which new loans should be floated...
...case of Jeff Bowers was not the only incident last week which showed that nine conscientious, overworked old men were having the time of their lives. Burdened with an immense responsibility, faced with the necessity of soon rendering decisions on the constitutionality of AAA processing taxes, the Bankhead Cotton Control Act, TVA (all probably to be argued in December) and later on the constitutionality of the Guffey Coal Act (see col. 3) and the Utilities Act, the Justices began the week by whipping off no less than 21 decisions. None of the decisions affected the New Deal but, with...