Word: jacobson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Benny Jacobson, proprietor of the Gold Coast Valeteria, revealed last night that he had purchased the building at the corner of Mt. Auburn, Plympton, and Bow Streets from the trustees of the Harvard Advocate...
...Benny Jacobson will give a banquet for the members of the football team at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Circle Lounge...
...read treatises on precious stones, used jewelers' tools to break up or remake stolen jewelry. To avoid the underworld markdown on hot goods, he printed up cards which bore his name and the legend "Felix P. Jacobson Co., 5 South Wabash, Chicago, Ill."-an active firm whose name he had simply appropriated. He posed as a legitimate salesman and always demanded list prices for stones...
...bunch of the boys (155 Kansas City business & professional men) were giving a testimonial luncheon last week for an old friend of the President. Eddie Jacobson was a World War I buddy of Artilleryman Harry Truman and Truman's partner in the Kansas City haberdashery that went bankrupt after the war. President Truman, who "was spending the holidays in Missouri, had been asked to send a telegram to Eddie, but instead he dropped in unexpectedly at the Muehlebach Hotel for lunch. His old friends were delighted...
Speculation Is Wonderful. One thing soon became clear: Harry Truman had not talked over his Eddie Jacobson speech with the front-parlor boys in the State Department, or the political handymen in his "Kitchen Cabinet." And no key Administration official was talking of a letup in the four-way squeeze on Russia: the airlift, the Marshall Plan, the upcoming $15 billion new arms budget, the proposed North Atlantic security pact. The best "educated guess" that his advisers could make was that Harry Truman, all on his own, was just trying a little propaganda campaign to start a little mutual distrust...