Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Jacob Raskob, National Democratic Chairman, said: "To have won such a notable victory is an achievement for which Mr. Jouett Shouse and his organization deserve real credit...
...more definite than to say that I probably will be married in the next 50 years. I'll allow myself that much time." Said Mrs. Frances Putnam, his mother, who had entertained them near Groton: "Where there's smoke, there's fire." Major the Hon. John Jacob Astor...
Reporters of these findings were Dr. James Angus Doull, formerly of Johns Hopkins, now professor of preventive medicine at Western Reserve University (Cleveland) ; and Dr. Perrin Hamilton Long of Johns Hopkins. The John Jacob Abel Fund (Chemical Foundation's $195,000) paid their expenses. The two researchers got their cold virus in the first instance from the noses and throats of persons plainly suffering from colds. Those secretions they put through filters which were so fine that the smallest known germs could not get through. This filtrate they dabbed in the nostrils of perfectly healthy volunteers, among them girls...
Jouett Shouse was at the racetrack in Havre de Grace, Md. the day they called him to help the Democracy. He was there with his two daughters watching the horses run, laying bets, having fun. It was John Jacob Raskob on the telephone, calling from Manhattan. He had been hunting all over for Mr. Shouse and wanted him to come right up to town? very important ? national duty ? great scheme in mind?must come. Jouett Shouse went up but it took Mr. Raskob two days to argue him into shouldering the task of electing a Democratic Congress...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., Jacob Steinger, 62, was napping in his son's office when a bandit entered, robbed Son Louis, a doctor, of $71. "Watch out, pop!" shouted Son Louis. Father Jacob awoke, jumped on the bandit, sunk his teeth into the bandit's gun hand, received a bullet in his shoulder. The bandit shrieked, dropped his gun. Then Father Jacob shot him in the back...