Word: jim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...praise; they had a tight grip on most of the 948 delegates (representing 600,000 members). But they used it to strengthen their attack on U.E.'s small group of right-wingers, led by James B. Carey, one of the U.E.'s founders and onetime president. Slim Jim Carey, now the C.I.O.'s secretary-treasurer, knew that he had not the slimmest chance of unhorsing the top trio, but he carried his fight to the floor. Matles and Fitzgerald gave Carey the full name-calling treatment: "Liar . . . stab in the back . . . tool of the employers. . . . Redbaiting...
...Sullivan, the committee's executive director and a favorite of the C.I.O. Sullivan, they insisted, was the man to rally labor and the party's liberals and left-wingers. But Harry Truman insisted on making his own choice. The appointment of McGrath continued the tradition, begun with Jim Farley, of naming an Irish Catholic as chairman of the Democratic Committee...
...afternoon did fast Terrier backs manage to squeeze through the Crimson forward wall for more than three yards. Twenty-one times they either lost ground or barely made the line of scrimmage due to the magnificent efforts of potential All-American Howie Houston and his accociates, Emil Drvaric, Jim Feinberg, and Chet Pierce...
Quarterback Jim Kenary, although his blocks and tackles were vicious all afternoon, watched his usually accurate passes sail over the heads of Crimson receivers. The Sophomore tossed several strikes, however, one of them for the second touchdown, and master-minded the team like a veteran...
Last year the team won seven of its eleven matches, and Manager Jim Beverly '47 forecasts even better results for the coming season. "With the added incentive of rifles now owned by the club, and nearly twice the ammo available, and with a good turn-out at our meetings, we should rank much higher in the matches-won percentage column," he said...