Word: jordan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week another one of those catchy tunes and goofy phrases fairly leapt across the nation. Every radio blared Open the Door, Richard! Five record versions were on sale, and 13 more (by Louis Jordan, Dick Haymes, the Pied Pipers, etc.) were being rushed to market. A quartet known as The Yokels sang it in Yiddish. Bing Crosby (an accessory after the fact), Bob Hope, Fred Allen and Bea Lillie had only to mention the word Richard on the air to put their studio audiences in stitches...
While Harvard faculty and students were enmeshed in their terms-end Battle of the Blue Books, the Massachusetts Legislature considered and rejected a proposal which would have crippled not only Harvard but every institution of higher education in the state. Messrs. Jordan and Lobel, from Revere and Brighton respectively, introduced a bill to withdraw the exemption from taxation for all colleges in the Commonwealth whose student body does not contain a minimum of sixty-five percent Bay State citizens...
...Orleans last week, cotton brokers were stirred by news of the biggest single transaction since Speculator Tom Jordan dumped his huge futures holdings (TIME, Oct. 28). In a spot cash deal, a 73-year-old Arkansas farmer and cotton trader, C. R. McKennon, sold his entire holdings of 6,319 bales for close...
...proposed bill would make any school or college enrolling more than 35 percent of the student body from outside the state no longer eligible for tax exemption. Representative Peter J. Jordan of Revere, co-sponsor of the bill, said that this was "purely a temporary measure, designed to protect our own boys during the post-war crisis. There have been so many complaints from families of boys and girls unable to obtain a higher education in their own state that we felt legislation was justified...
Although Representative Louis Lobel, author of the bill, was unavailable for comment yesterday, co-sponsor Jordan said that the case presented by the educators was being taken under consideration and that the results would be known soon...