Word: jump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doing for San Francisco business what Labor has never been able to do for itself. In the newly incorporated San Francisco Employers Council, Shipowner Roger Dearborn Lapham offered his fellows one big union of their own, a master association of employers associations. He thus put San Francisco a long jump ahead of any other U. S. city and injected a new factor into Pacific Coast labor relations...
Folks in Red River County, Texas, where John Nance Garner was born, have never forgiven Uvalde, where he now lives, for getting the jump on them in starting a Garner-for-President boom in 1931. Last week they repaid Uvalde in full. Six miles southwest of Detroit, Texas, around the cabin where John Garner's mother was born in 1851, they assembled to "direct the attention of our fellow citizens to his outstanding qualifications for President of the United States...
...Partlow '41, will be fighting it out nip and tuck with Daniel Miles, captain of the visiting aggregation, for supremacy in the high jump. Partlow made quite a mark for himself on the Freshman team last year and has been doing consistently good jumping this winter, hitting six feet one inch. Northeastern's Miles can clear the bar at six feet four inches...
Partlow's talents are not confined to the high jump, he is also expected to provide competition in the sprints...
...only brash, Johnny-jump-up William Saroyan hastens more incontinently to answer his critics than Playwright Clifford Odets. Last week, after the opening of his new play about love, Rocket to the Moon, Odets punctually tore into print...