Word: jim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month in Lakeview, Ga., men of the same mental stamp as those who made up Hitler's Sturmabteilung, the local Ku Klux Klan, were attempting the same sort of intimidation. You quote [TIME, Feb. 16] the law enforcement officer of the county, Sheriff Jim Moreland, as saying: "I'm just as scared of the Ku Klux Klan as you are." Further, he advised the victim to conduct himself in a manner more pleasing to the Klan. Shades of the Munich Brown House...
James Henderson Duff, governor of Pennsylvania, is a strapping redhead with the comfortable girth of an archbishop and the piercing eyes of an evangelist. Last week, full of evangelical hellfire, Big Jim proclaimed himself the prophet of a new kind of Pennsylvania Republicanism...
...proclamation was delivered where it would do the most good, at the annual meeting of the archconservative Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association in Philadelphia. Ostensibly, Big Jim's theme was inflation. The best cure for it, he told the PMAsters, is a price rollback. No matter how unpleasant this medicine might be, "industry ought to set the example by taking the first dose." After all, said Big Jim, with record earnings industry can well afford the risk...
...Jim Conant at 155 meets a Bulldog ace, Fred Mansell and 175-pound Robert Claflin '50, going better in practice this week, is slated to face Eli powerhouse Jim Howard, who wrestled at Yale in 1946 but was in service last season...
...preliminary speakers included Sam Rayburn, Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas in a fetching white dress, and Alben Barkley. At the Mayflower, there were Fannie Perkins in a beaded dress, The Bronx Boss Ed Flynn -who almost forgot to stand up during the playing of the Sidewalks of New York -and Jim Farley, who got the biggest hand of all when he said he was glad to be there. Margaret Truman begged off singing The Star Spangled Banner at both dinners because she had laryngitis. At the Mayflower, Opera Singer Helen Jepson sang Mighty Lak' a Rose, looking straight at Harry...