Word: jims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whereas we find the Pacific Islanders .using Taro, a root, which seems indicative of an entirely distinct racial origin. The youngest son, James Wilder, while at Harvard, introduced the Ukulele, and Hawaiian Music. He is a noted artist, and is known to every Boy Scout of America as Pathfinder Jim, Chief Sea Scout, the man who organized the Sea Scouts of America. C. S. STANWORTH
Unemployment. As a first step in his plan to solve the unemployment problem, Lord Privy Seal "Jim" Thomas introduced a resolution authorizing the Treasury to advance $5,000,000 a year to help develop the Colonies and Mandated Territories. Carefully he explained that by developing the Colonies (not the self-governing Dominions) they would directly aid British unemployment by increasing the demand for British exports in those colonies...
...them. And last week Prime Minister MacDonald, whose first London job, at 19, earned him $2.40 a week for addressing envelopes for a bicycle touring club, announced in the Commons, in his capacity as First Lord of the Treasury, that he had increased the salary of Lord Privy Seal "Jim" Thomas, sharp-tongued onetime engine-wiper, from $10,000 to $25,000, because of extra duties as minister in charge of unemployment. Prominent Laborites agitated last week to increase also the salaries of the Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, at present barely sufficient to pay the expenses...
...Erie (third oldest U. S. road, founded 1832) showed fair progress up to and through the Civil War, then passed into the hands of Jay Gould, Jim Fiske and Daniel Drew. There followed a long series of unprofitable years, during which the Erie was an "orphan" road, no one interest controlling it. In 1924 the Van Sweringens secured control, and the Erie soon began to show a profit instead of 3 loss. Erie's 1927 net income was $3,512,650; its 1928 income was $10,002,883. For the first quarter of 1929 it showed...
...open-air statues to have to submit to certain indecencies. But Christian Student has received more than his full share. Standing opposite Murray Dodge Hall, campus religious headquarters, he is passed daily by almost each & every student. At night, when pagan students are emboldened by potations from Bill & Jim's or other anti-prohibition stations, they frequently commune with the Christian Student. Many a sun has risen to find him hugging an empty bottle, or with indecent additions to his costume, outlandish colors on his anatomy...