Word: jim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boat captain, Jim Queeny, who turned in the fastest time in the novice singles trials last week, lowered it by three and a half seconds to win his class title in 3:28.5 over John Brewer...
During the novice singles eliminations Wednesday, an ex-PT boat skipper, Jim Queeny, piloted his craft to the most impressive victory of the day and made himself the favorite for the final with a 3:32 clocking in the first heat. John Brewer, who trailed Queeny, also qualified, since there were only two heats. The winner of the other trial, John Bisbee, and his runner-up, L. W. Barroll, round out the novice singles finalists...
...Jesse Jones produced the Government cash. Kaiser picked Howard Hughes as his partner in the venture. Witness Merrill C. Meigs, Hearst executive and senior consultant in WPB's aviation division, recalled with awe: "Kaiser is one of the world's greatest salesmen, in a class with Diamond Jim Brady and Bill Sunday...
...including Pennsylvania, however. Said Republican Governor James (Big Jim) Duff as Dewey finished his western tour: "For the Republican Party to tie itself up to a single candidate for the presidency at this time . . . would be like selling the party a pig in a poke...
...Texarkana, Ark., Bus Driver Jim Crowell informed a would-be passenger that she could not enter his bus with her live chickens, let her in after she obligingly twisted the heads off the two birds...