Word: jim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lift for Murray. The pattern was promptly adopted by others. Two days later the United Electrical Workers' Jim Matles agreed to a similar contract for U.E.'s 40,000 G.M. workers. That fact seemed sure to have an effect on U.E.'s negotiations at Westinghouse and General Electric. Next day, the lyday Chrysler strike was over. Michigan's dapper Governor Kim Sigler dashed from Lansing to his Detroit office, where Chrysler and the U.A.W. had resumed peace talks. A few hours later, Chrysler and the union agreed on a flat 13^ increase. Ford, which had proposed...
...part of his plan he got a job as a bartender at the quietly aristocratic Plaza, a hotel which was frequented by many rich and famous men of the day, among them Diamond Jim Brady-"an overstuffed pig, with his stickpins all in little animal shapes." O'Dwyer stayed there three years, studying shorthand in his spare time, brushing up on his Spanish, and yearning for the export business. Then came disillusionment; the export business wanted no part of a bartender...
...moaning farmer who had been gored in the belly by a Zebu bull. Down the corridor at a dogtrot came Dr. James Fanstone. He lifted the banana leaf that protected the man's wound against flies. "Get this fellow into surgery," he said. An hour later, Dr. Jim reported that the patient was doing well. What had he done about the man's innards? "Oh, I just cleaned them off and shoved them back," he said, peeling off his rubber gloves. Then he was off to look after another case...
Your otherwise accurate magahogan [on Disc Jockey Jim Hawthorne] is far afield in its translation of the name of the home of Hoganites. It is Pasahogan, not Pasadena-hogan as reported in your May 10 issue...
This leaves exactly four men to uphold Crimson prestige in the 72nd annual, 47-college championships: Sam Felton and John Thorndike in the 16-pound and polevaulters Owen Torrey and Bill Lawrence. Felton, the hammer favorite, thinks he'll have to throw about 185 feet to beat Jim Burnham of Dartmouth and Maine's Marsanskis. Final exams have prevented him from getting into shape, though. His teammate, Thorndike, may take fourth or fifth. Felton may also place in the discus...