Word: jim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best collegiate athlete since Jim Thorpe . . . and possibly the greatest of them all" is a tremendous compliment to pay to Glenn Davis [TIME, June 16], but did your Sport Editor ever bother to check the record of one Jack Robinson...
...Jim Grimes, white-haired, pipe-smoking business agent of the Mt. Vernon, Wash. (pop. 4,278) carpenter's union, had to admit that he was doing some strange thinking. But a question kept bothering him: Did his union really want a raise? It was theirs for the asking. One clause of their contract with building constructors called for salary adjustments based on increased living costs; on that basis they had 13? an hour more coming to them. But Grimes knew what costs were doing to the building trade. Would they get as much work if they charged...
...Jim," said Roosevelt, "I am going to tell you something I have never told another living soul." Roosevelt dropped his voice to a whisper. "Of course I will not run for a third term...
...voted to pay him his $20,000-a-year salary while he was in jail. Then the obliging legislature upped ruddy, 49-year-old City Clerk John B. Hynes, a political unknown, to the office of temporary mayor. Salary: $20,000. In or out of jail, sick or hale, Jim Curley still seemed to have official Boston firmly by the tail...
...waiting on tables, scaling fish at summer resorts, and sweeping out the local Y.M.C.A. Most of his time in the U.S., as Mbonu tells it, was spent as a sort of black Cinderella in a white man's coach. He often had to play hide-&-seek with Jim Crow, yet he went home feeling pretty optimistic about the U.S. race problem. His conclusion: "Against the declining forces of reaction and hate are overwhelming forces of progress and kindness...