Beautiful People (1941); Jack

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>    This is from the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 28 May 1941, pg. 21, col. 6:
>
>_LaGuardia Insists Counsel_
>   _to Citizens Budget Group_
>   _Spoke of Getting "Jack"_
>(...)
>    In this letter the Mayor quoted Mr. Riegelman as having said that
> sensational statements, whether true or false, had to be issued every so
> often to "pep up your customers" and "get the jack."
>
>(Maybe not the same "jack"--ed.)

This is "jack" = "money", I think.

[As in the proverb, "All work and no play makes jack." (^_^)]

-- Doug Wilson