Word: jims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down in No'th Ca'lina, which some unkind person once called a valley of self-consciousness between two mountains of conceit (Virginia and South Carolina), they appreciate a politician. When Jim Farley stopped off at Charlotte's Southern Railway station one day last week, the mayor gave Democratic Chairman Farley the city's key, Charlotte's postmen gave Postmaster General Farley a leather traveling bag and the Elks gave Elk Farley a hat which unfortunately proved to be a couple of sizes too small for his bald head...
That night, at the Robert E. Lee Hotel in Winston-Salem, Jim Farley gave the people of No'th Ca'lina and the nation something to talk about-his first personal political speech since he left the New York State Legislature 17 years ago. Jim Farley's 7¼-size hat was in the ring. But which ring? Was Jim Farley a candidate for the Presidency, the Vice-Presidency, or what...
...Jim Farley is as practical a politician as ever whispered. He is also a Roman Catholic. Dopesters guessed that Jim would gladly yield the Presidency to 68-year-old Cordell Hull, but would dearly love to be Vice President. And Jim's friends think the No. 2 job is not beyond a Catholic's reach. But Jim Farley knows that no man ever got the Vice-Presidency by running for it. So Jim's first campaign speech sounded as if he was shooting for the moon and hoping to hit at least the broad side...
...Rawstrom is worth no more than a pair of seconds behind Eric Cutler in the 220 and 440--and Frannie Powers will be very close to Cutler in the 220. Crimson sprinters Cutler, Jim Curwen, Dave Stearns, and Lonnie Stowell should have little difficulty with Beck and Lotz...
Four of the men will be entered in the one mile relay, one of the feature races of the games. The quartet will be composed of Captain Jim Lightbody, Hobie Lerner, Frank McKechnie, and Joe Donnelly, all of whom have been able to keep in good shape during the examination period...