Word: jims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real woman has fared none too well in politics lately. A red-polled, 32-year-old Baptist last week headed Governess Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson of Texas back toward the cows and chickens whence she emerged two years ago to "vindicate" her impeached husband Jim. Attorney-General Dan Moody won the Democratic primary with well over 50% of the votes cast, thus precluding a "run-off" primary unless Mrs. Ferguson's husband-manager could establish his loud charges of poll frauds. In Texas, Democratic nomination equals virtual election. Under the terms of a wager* Governess Ferguson was honor-bound...
...ever penned such a gambling scene as the one here, where young Jim, the camp "gaycat," "fuzz-face" or "gazoony" is admitted to the Thanksgiving Day poker game and after long lucky hours lays four aces on the horse-blanket to beat Bully Black Hawk out of a monster pot. They gave the lad his moniker (nickname) after that and he skinned (drove) mules thereafter instead of walloping dishes...
...Jim's Prediction. Besides colorful invective and simple talk for simple people, Jim Ferguson, onetime cowhand and horse-wrangler, possesses a splendid flair for bluffing. At a judicious moment last week he released an article called "The Result," in which, with a column of figures that would have impressed the average farmer whether he could read or not, it was told that "Ma" Ferguson would receive exactly 453,884 votes; Dan Moody exactly 307,887; and Lynch Davidson about 63,000. Moody men guffawed. Lynch Davidson growled about "political liars." Jim Ferguson hitched up his pants and hustled...
...Texas have permitted to be staged in their gubernatorial office-the spectacle of a woman governor's husband occupying her official desk and quite openly running the state's business in her stead. And no day passes without some echo of certain highway-building deals perpetrated by Jim Fergusen behind the petticoats of Governor Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson, his obedient wife...
Arkansas. A Los Angeles judge had the pleasure of sentencing James S. ("Fiddlin' Jim") Davidson, U. S. postmaster of Fallsville, Ark., for traveling about the country passing $80,000 worth of spurious money orders. Arkansans, however, paid little heed to the event. "Fiddlin' Jim's" peculations are almost beneath notice in the state that repeatedly re-elects legless Commissioner of State Lands, Highways and Improvements Herbert R. Wilson, a master of high and hidden finance...