Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks before her death Mrs. Bischoff had written Counsel Isidor Jacob Kresel-who was relieved as prosecutor for the Seabury investigation when indicted in the Bank of U. S. failure proceedings (TIME, Feb. 2)-that she had "some information in connection with a 'frameup' by a police .officer and others which . . . will be of great aid to your committee." Five days before her demise she communicated the nature of her information to Irving Ben Cooper, Inquisitor Kresel's successor. She told him that she was a painter. Police investigation later revealed that her comfortable income came...
...Isidor Jacob Kresel is a diminutive man and an able lawyer. Austrian by birth. American by 40 years of residence, his record in the Bar includes investigation of the famous insurance scandals of a quarter of a century ago. He was a prosecuting attorney in the impeachment of Governor William Sulzer of New York. For the U. S. Government he investigated the meat packers in Chicago and was just delving into the building trades when Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty discharged him from the Government employ. Three years ago he unearthed a series of "ambulance chasing" scandals in Manhattan. Recently...
Members of the club elected the following men as officers: president, Herbert Cranswick Cameron '31, of Medford; secretary, Henry Thomas Conway '32, of Lowell; senior representative, William Warner Jeanes '31, of Villanova, Pennsylvania; junior representative, Abel Jacob Bates '32, of Webster. A sophomore representatives will make up an executive council...
...Office Department could not follow its intention of issuing stamps illustrating George Washington at significant stages in his life (in connection with the 200th birthday anniversary celebration), Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown said: "The collected portraits of Washington bore too little family resemblance. One of them looked like John Jacob Raskob...
Ever since the forceful, forbidding bas-relief of Rima- was unveiled by Stanley Baldwin at Hyde Park in 1925, the work of Jacob Epstein, U. S.-born, London-dwelling Jewish sculptor, has been big news to the British Press, bitterly attacked by the conservative, enthusiastically praised by enemies of prettiness. Last week the newest Epstein, a 6-ft. marble called Genesis, was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. The storm broke the next morning. The statue is of a heavy, brooding, pregnant female figure with the synthetic Mongolian features of most Epsteins- low forehead, slanting eyes, Negroid nose, mouth and chin...