Word: jim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Jim Bruce first went to Buenos Aires 21 months ago, about the only instruction he carried was to make friends with the Argentines. A convivial customers' man and a millionaire (National Dairy Products Corp., Baltimore Trust), Businessman Bruce did as he was told. He got on joke-swapping terms with Juan Perón, hobnobbed with the cardinal primate and governors. Bruce became so close a friend of some nationalist generals that it got to be embarrassing. A group of army brass once invited him to a meeting. Just in time, Bruce learned that they were plotting...
...dollars the U.S. pays for Argentine goods. To stimulate U.S. trade, imports & exports hitherto state-traded would be allowed to revert to private hands. Most important of all, Argentina would sell its crop surpluses at going world prices, instead of charging all that the traffic would bear. Jim Bruce felt that his mission had begun to bear fruit...
Betty Farley, 26, slim blonde eldest of Politician Jim Farley's three children, set the date (June 9) and the place (St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City) for her wedding to Glenn Montgomery, 35, electrical engineer and wartime lieutenant colonel...
Penn will rely on either Ed Lukivich (4-1) or Ralph Jiorle (1-1) to oppose Ira Godin. The Quaker lineup is headed by first baseman and Captain Frank Cooney, who bats third with a .339 average; center fielder Jim Smith, another better than average hitter; and third baseman Tom Mangan, currently hitting at a .345 pace...
...year old future captain established a new Harvard record in the shotput at the Heptagonal Meet here this winter when he heaved the shot 50 feet, 8 inches. He had won both the discus and the shot in every dual meet this spring until Yale's Olympic stars, Jim Fuchs and Vic Frank forced him to settle for two thirds at New Haven Saturday...