Word: jims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter of fact, it would have made little difference to the outcome of her campaign had Governess Ferguson been brought to bed by the wreck. Practically speaking, it was not her campaign at all but another campaign by her vigorous, fire-eating husband Jim against two other candidates: red-headed Attorney General Dan Moody, aged 32, and a politically inconsequential wight named Lynch Davidson...
...Jim Barnes...
...When Jim Ferguson heard that Moody had accepted the challenge, he threw up his hands and ejaculated: "Dan is a blowed-up sucker and a gone fawnskin...
...have to do any handshaking? she is not good at it and has a poor memory for names and faces. After she had read a brief speech, her husband, who was the main attraction, got up and opened with his big guns and then hand-shook everybody. Jim said that the Klan and other evil interests were trying to put him aud his wife out of office. Dan Moody, on the other hand, says it is well known that he never had any use for the Klan and that the only issue is Jim Ferguson's dictatorship...
...Jim Reed rose once again grimly to his feet: "Mr. President, I arise merely to call attention to the fact that between the time we voted to take up the resolution and the time we voted on its adoption, as nearly as I can estimate, there was a lapse of only about seven minutes and three-quarters, including the time consumed by the roll call. . . . The fact is that 34 of you voted against taking up the resolution; and then 21 of you?and I am going to drop into the vernacular?'welched' inside of seven and three-quarter minutes...