Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a leisurely trip on a frigate and a banana boat, he turned up in London. "Poor little Creech Jones," the Daily Express quoted him as saying, "he's had a bad time . . . Acted like a fool. I will tell him a thing or two when I see him...
Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones last week refused to say how the meeting had gone. But West Indian union leaders voiced the feeling of the natives. "Violence will break out among our people," said one, "if he does not return. Lord Baldwin is a sympathetic governor."
Basketball in 20 Plays. There are three big reasons-not in any sense secret-why Coach Rupp's team has been burning up the courts for four seasons. One of them is blond, 5 ft. 10½ Ralph Beard, his gum-chewing "quarterback." A master dribbler and playmaker, Beard...
Momentarily, Coaltown had stolen the thunder of his famed stablemate, Citation, who was in his stall convalescing from an ankle ailment. But one man, shrewd Ben Jones, insisted that Coaltown still belonged in Citation's shadow. Said Trainer Ben, who knows all there is to know about both horses...
Moffett testified that when he went to Washington on his mission in 1941, he persuaded F.D.R. to help Aramco in its troubles with Ibn Saud. Moffett introduced a 1941 memo from President Roosevelt to Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones, which said: "Will you tell the British I hope they can...