Word: jim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Jim Duff moved into the firing line with his rifle cocked. As rumors of deals and counter-deals mounted, Duff summoned a press conference in Harrisburg. Said he flatly: "I have been saying for a solid year that I am not a candidate for anything and I'm not going to be. It has been suggested that I am anxious to be a Cabinet member in the next Administration. I do not expect to be. I will not be-and that is without reservation or qualification...
...Then Jim Duff fired point-blank at the Grundy strategists. "If they want to get tough," said Big Jim, "I'll show them that I can get tough, too. I'm not looking for a fight but I certainly am not going to sit down and do nothing . . . Let them start something and see the heads fall...
Peter J. McGuinness had always liked to talk. He was born and raised in Greenpernt and left it only once, to work as a lumber inspector in the South. He soon came back explaining: "I don't like that Jim Crow they got or their goddam white crow either." As a young dock walloper he was the king of Greenpernt's waterfront. He got into a fight every night, flattened everyone he ever fought, and always leaped up on a lumber pile afterwards to give the spectators "a hot spiel...
Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, defeated in the Alabama primaries, suffered another setback; a judge refused to dismiss the paternity suit against him, ordered it tried on its merits...
...crime, as the tabloids play all its angles across the board, on the minds of you-and-you-and-you. Using an unimaginative hopscotch technique, he jumps from one character to another and back again, winds up with a notebook full of unconvincing case histories. Samples: ¶Handsome Jim Harron, a well-paid New York publicity man, is unnerved, then regenerated, by the crime and a visit to the victim's father. The effect on Harron is to make him see that he must return to his estranged wife. ¶ Fan French, an idle Westchester matron, is thrilled...