Word: jims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...need it." How much he needed it, he indicated when a fellow drinker asked: "What goes on, anyway?" Replied Ernie: "I don't know. I just sit and listen. I know that if I fall back on the wisdom of the U.S. I will be all right. Jim will have a formula...
...first National A.A.U. Track & Field Championships held in the South since 1914. (The A.A.U. arranged for a special Pullman car to San Antonio, so their Negro contestants would not have to ride in Jim Crow cars.) The only new world's record set at San Antonio: burly ex-Coast Guardsman Bob Fitch of Minnesota hurled the discus 179 ft. ⅛ in., bettering Italian Adolfo Consolini's mark by more than four feet...
When Pittsburgh's Pressed Steel Car Co., Inc. was organized in 1899, its sales manager was a man named James Buchanan Brady. People called him "Diamond Jim." Greatest of all bigtime spenders, Diamond Jim Brady didn't throw his enormous parties just for fun-they paid off in enormous sales...
Then along came a lot of big war contracts-and a man named Ernest Murphy. He was tough and bejowled, just like Diamond Jim, but he was no party-thrower. The hard-working Mr. Murphy shook the dust and defeatism out of Pressed Steel, gave it a new kind of flash. Result: last week, after nearly half a century of making nothing but freight cars, Pressed Steel sparkled with plans to invade the home-appliance field. The first shiny electric ranges were rolling off the production lines in its Chicago plant...
Floyd Stevens and Jim Galloway of the Pastoral Relations Committee of Marysville's Methodist Church came to break the news: the church's trustees had voted to ask the Methodist Conference for a new pastor. Said Pastor Safran of that interview: "I asked why, and Stevens answered: 'It was because of your address at the high school. It is out of place. . . .' I said, 'Is there anything else?' And Jim answered: 'Well, you haven't made enough calls. But do you remember the first Sunday School board meeting when I told...