Word: jere
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Granite-faced old Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, had at last been pushed from his stubborn stand against any tax "forgiveness." Majority Leader John W. McCormack, responding to Ad ministration pressure, and Tennessee's shrewd Jere Cooper, the committee's best tax brain, did the pulling and hauling. Old Muley now came out for cancellation of about half of 1942 taxes; the Demo cratic majority of his committee gave his bill a favorable report...
According to Jere Mead '43, the Band will duplicate its weekly performance in the Stadium, and will parade before the Yale stands as usual. It refuses to announce, however, whether it has any special stunts up its collective sleeve...
...Jere Mead '43, manager has indicated that the band will make the trip to New Haven for the Harvard-Yale game...
Featuring Miss Priscilla Patch and Jere Shechan '43, the Shaw one-actor is directed by Leonard Kent '43. Set-designs are by Rollo Thompson '43. The Lorea farce, never before presented in this region, co-stars Miss Priscilla Free man, who is making her farewell appearance with the club after several years of notewerthy performances, and Robert Keahey '45. Directed by Ted Squier '43 and Bob Netley '43, the play will have sets by John Holabird. The Dramatic Club in returning to Brattle Hall after an absence of six years...
...well of the House where he had been speaking, picked his way hurriedly back up to the marble dais and the gavel of his authority. The Speaker's face was strained, but he had the composure of a gambler whose bet is down. Tennessee's Jere Cooper, Speaker pro tempore, spoke the ritual words: "The time of the gentleman from Texas has expired-all time has expired...