Word: jim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James A. Cronin, son of the noted Jim, exclaimed "how they are drinking! The boys bolt in, grab a large quantity of beer, bolt it, and fly back to their books. They don't stay long, but drink fast and plenty...
...month ago that Landis would have to go. Harry Truman was concerned over the increasing friction in CAB, and over the dissatisfaction throughout the Administration with the way CAB was doing its job (TIME, March 17). The President talked it over with most of his top advisers. All admired Jim Landis' legal abilities and his fair-mindedness, but all had pet peeves. From almost every side came stories about Landis' irascibility and inability to get along with people...
...months as CABoss, Jim Landis had been as hard-handed on the big airlines as he was hardheaded to some of his associates. The big airlines had fought him because of his encouragement of small airline operators (many of them ex-Air Force pilots) in their development of air cargo service on unscheduled lines (about 80% of all U.S. air freight is handled by nonscheduled lines). His pressure on the big operators to adopt new safety measures had cost them money. This week, after he was out, came a safety report which might cost them more. Over Chairman Landis...
...Lonely Jim Landis (he was divorced three months ago) packed his bag and went off to Florida. At 48 he was entering private business for the first time. His new boss: Capitalist Joseph P. Kennedy, another early favorite of Franklin Roosevelt...
Last week the dead G.I.s got a living memorial. Ex-U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Hugh Gibson and a platoon of big names (Herbert Hoover, Jim Farley, General Omar Bradley, Philip Murray, Louella Parsons) began raising $2,000,000 to help rebuild the University of Nijmegen in honor of the 82nd...