Word: jims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis is a Northern town with Southern accents, where Jim Crow walks a tightrope. Negroes are not segregated on streetcars and buses, in the ballparks, or at the Municipal Opera. But in restaurants, the public schools and movie houses, they are. Last week the delicate balance, a matter of timing and tradition, was snapped. A reporter casually asked the city's new welfare director, John J. O' Toole, whether Negroes could be allowed to swim in all the city's public pools. There was no law saying they couldn't, so O' Toole answered...
...Brain-trusted by Chicago's Jim Noprris and Arthur Wirtz, and Madison Square Garden's Harry Markson...
...help of his two victories, U.S.C. breezed off with the team championship. The score: Southern Cal. 55 2/5, U.C.L.A. 31, Stanford 30, Michigan State 26, Penn State 25. The day's outstanding individual performance: a 56-ft.-1½-in. heave of the shot by Yale's Jim Fuchs, who is also a pretty good halfback in season; Fuchs's toss broke the N.C.A.A. record of another footballer-shot putter, the late Al Blozis of Georgetown, by one inch...
...tiny Kemmerer, just about everybody bought on credit, hence paid high prices. Jim Penney had a better idea: cash on the barrelhead. More important, at a time when most small-town retailers firmly believed it was good business to make a big profit on small volume, Penney subscribed to a still revolutionary idea; he wanted to make a small profit on each item, thus build big volume and a big profit...
...will not be president for long after that. Railroaders guessed he will be moved up when Clement leaves the chairmanship and Operating Vice President James M. Symes (rhymes with whims), 51, will take over the throttle. An up-from-the-ranks man also, Jim Symes has great visions of the Pennsy's future, once hopefully proclaimed: "The railroads have a potential travel market that requires only tapping...