Word: joes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plays along closely with the New Deal, harried angry Senator Robinson by asking for an explanation '"why the amendment is necessary at all . . . if it is already in the power of the President to use his discretion as to the amount of local contributions required." Losing his temper, Joe Robinson turned on him and bellowed: "I can give the Senator from Illinois the explanation, but-Great God!-I respectfully decline to give him understanding." The final scene of the debate was almost tearful. Alben Barkley cried: "I never expected to see the floor of the U. S. Senate turned...
United Press moved Julius Frandsen from New York to head the strike desk and Joe E. Morris from Washington to help him. Young Cyrus Sulzberger, nephew of the New York Times's publisher, is one of the U. P. Labor specialists remaining in Washington. All U. P. men have been ordered to write strictly down the middle of the road, to balance each line favorable to one side with one for the opposition...
Every Princetonian knows in some form or other the story of Joe Gish, a student invented by a group of the Class of 1905 whose creators kept him alive for nearly four years by enrolling for extra courses under his name until five of them accidentally signed chapel cards for him the same day.* In one of his stories Princeton's Author F. Scott Fitzgerald changed Joe Gish into an ape. Last week it was revealed that all this spring a band of prankish seniors at Iowa State College (Ames) had actually persuaded their psychology, botany and chemistry instructors...
...Princeton had a ghost student named Henry Thompson, invented by a member of the mathematics department who playfully filled out papers in his name while supervising entrance examinations in Chicago. Henry Thompson was admitted but never appeared to register. Most ingenious recreation of Joe Gish was Ephraim di Kahble, conceived in 1935 by a group from the then freshman class. The freshmen rented and furnished a boarding house room for Ephraim di Kahble, inserted an advertisement under his name in the Daily Princetonian offering a free ride in a Lincoln phaeton to the Yale game in New Haven which drew...
When, to the amazement of the boxing world, German Pugilist Max Schmeling knocked out Negro Pugilist Joe Louis a year ago, his just reward was obviously a bout with Heavyweight Champion James J. Braddock. Contracts were signed last winter. The bout was scheduled for last week...