Word: jims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then it was that Senator Jim Reed sprung a surprise, and for once the fighting Missourian had the Democrats behind him to a man. He called a resolution ordering a special committee of five Senators to investigate campaign expenditures, a committee on which there should be two regular Republicans, one Progressive Republican and two Democrats?giving the opposition the majority...
...that they put a limit to their talk. Every now and then he still speaks of that limitation, but the whole incident seems in a fair way of being forgotten. You see that man with the iron grey hair and iron jaw-rather a fine figure -that is Senator Jim Reed, a Democrat. He is dissociated from his Democratic colleagues but he has put up a fine fight on nearly every issue that has come before this Congress. He poured forth fire and brimstone on the World Court, on the Debt settlements. He is one of the fiercest attackers...
...Martin Madden, who has the difficult job of chairman of the Appropriations Committee. There are a lot more of course. Will Wood, who runs the Republican Congressional Committee, and Oldfield, who occupies the same post for the Democrats, and others who cut a figure, for one reason or another-Jim Begg, and Fred Britten and Henry Allen Cooper and Hamilton Fish and Howard, who dresses like William Jennings Bryan, and Wingo of Arkansas-you can't stop if you once start picking them...
...social activities, informal discussions and that bugbear of the weeks before Tap Day, the "dope session," at which the undergraduate solemly argues Bill Jones's chance to be tapped last man for Skull and Bones, or whether Wolf's Head or Elihu Club will provide a haven for Jim Smith...
...received a telegram from some Fisk undergraduates asking him please to investigate "the situation" (TIME, Feb. 16, 1925, et ante). This latter was created by Dr. Fayette Avery McKenzie, then President of Fisk. The students were striking-indeed 150 resigned and decamped-because of Dr. McKenzie's alleged "Jim Crow" methods: allowing a Negro bishop to be insulted, segregating audiences at college concerts, banning mixed dancing, silk stockings, decollete gowns, leading Fisk entertainers into a white men's club by the kitchen door. The students were striking and they were demanding a new president, a black president...