Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasion was a special meeting of the Democratic National Committee called by its energetic little chairman, John Jacob Raskob. A foreknowledge that he, a Wet, would bring up Prohibition as a party matter had provoked preliminary wails of warning from Southern Drys, which helped only to advertise the gathering. The certain prospect of the kind of intraparty fight that only Democrats can stage drew throngs of spectators to the assembly. Senators, Representatives, National Committee members milled about in open anxiety. From the wall fell the stern gaze of Thomas Jefferson...
...Morgan-Bonbright group is no longer correct. It is the Morgan-Bonbright-Carlisle group. And to serve history fully, a fourth name should be added to the hyphenated group, that of Schoellkopf, the family which has been carried to wealth and power by Niagara Falls. In 1850 Jacob Fred Schoellkopf started a flour mill above Niagara Falls, powered by an old-fashioned water wheel. In 1890 the use of water for electric power was introduced and he put in a plant, made long term contracts of 40 to 50 years, but up to the time of his death...
Whether or not he was selling anything Gaudier worked like a demon, sometimes made 150 drawings in an evening. Gradually he met some useful friends: Frank Harris, Paul Morand, Jacob Epstein, John Middleton Murry. But he quarreled bitterly with Murry because Katherine Mansfield did not like Sophie. Nobody liked Sophie. Gaudier himself quarreled with her constantly. Frequently he tried to get her to become his mistress but she always refused, though she was not pleased when he went to other women...
...generously. They also introduced the crooks to their parishioners. Where zeal did not rise to the buying point, the rogues made names make sales. They mentioned as investors or authorizers Cardinals Hayes, O'Connell and Mundelein; Archbishop Curley of Baltimore, Bishop Shahan of Washington; Alfred Emanuel Smith and John Jacob Raskob; Michael J. Meehan, stockbroker, and James A. Flaherty, supreme councillor of the Knights of Columbus. One of the rogues, Jerome D. Kline, played with his own name. To solicit German Catholics he was Jerome D. Kline. To Irish Catholics he became "J. D. Kane...
...Died. Jacob Koppel Sandier, 74, composer of Eili, Eili, famed Jewish lament (often thought to be an old folk-song), oldtime choirmaster and musician in East Side Manhattan theatres; in Brooklyn, N. Y. Composed in 1896 for a Yiddish play, the song attained great popularity, but Mr. Sandier did not copyright it until 1919, never received more than a tithe of his rightful royalties...