Word: jim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looked as hard as a banker's heart. Actually, she was a college-educated, devoutly religious, well-bred woman who was about as political as peach cobbler. She was, above all, a dutiful wife. Her first act as Governor was to sign an "amnesty" restoring Farmer Jim's right to hold public office. (It was rescinded by her successor.) Though both Fergusons were teetotalers, they opposed Prohibition. In her first term, Ma released 3,600 prisoners (mostly bootleggers), attempted to put a 10% tax on cigarettes (she and Farmer Jim both disapproved of smoking). Running the state economically...
...family, and when, in 1932, her husband told her it was time to run again, she reportedly wept for three nights. But she gamely took off her apron and returned to politics, winning a second lackluster term by 3,000 votes. By 1940, when the aging Farmer Jim instructed her to try one more time, the Ferguson flame had guttered out. Ma was beaten by, of all people, W. Lee ("Pass the biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel, a flour miller and hillbilly singer. After Jim Ferguson died in 1944, Ma retired to the house he had built for her, overlooking...
Silver-Haired Seigneur. The nine who shunned this year's trip include four first-place winners in last week's meet, four seconds, one third. Seven of them are married; none are well-off. Without them. Villanova's James F. ("Jumbo Jim") Elliott, who must make do coaching a squad studded with leftovers, should still have a winning team. Along with Budd and 220-yd. Winner Paul Drayton, two sprinters he developed himself, Jumbo has enough speedsters to sweep every flat race from
...plays poker and cribbage with union buddies, attends union social functions, and has been known to shell out of his own pocket for old union friends who fell on hard times. On first-name terms not only with Reuther but with "Jimmy'' (the Teamsters' Hoffa), "Jim" (the Electrical Workers' Carey) and "Dave" (the Steelworkers' McDonald), he frequently puts in phone calls to them to settle a point of argument. "If you treat most people right," says Seaton, "you get treated back the same...
...Having a tiger by the tail" is the way James Joseph Ling, 38, president of Dallas' Ling-Temco Electronics, Inc., describes his business operations; if he lets go, he may be eaten. Last week, giving the tiger's tail another yank, Jim Ling used his recently acquired majority interest in Dallas' Chance Vought Corp. to merge the 44-year-old aircraft company with Ling-Temco over the protests of Chance Vought officers and other stockholders. The merger creates a Texas-based aircraft, missile and electronics complex with a backlog of $300 million in orders. Ling, who once...