Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...having put Claudius Hart Huston. Chairman of the Republican National Committee and President Hoover's friend, into a bad hole by exposing his stock trading on lobby funds, began to diminish last week (TIME. March 31). The reason: Republicans were actively on the move to put John Jacob Raskob, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in almost the same hole. If both party leaders were thus beclouded, the political score would be evened...
Already in second place with 8,682 contributing alumni, the campaign began with a big alumni dinner in Manhattan from which, as in the Yale drive, speeches were broadcast over a network of 19 stations. The speakers: President Livingston Farrand; onetime (1892-1920) President Jacob Gould Schurman, retired U. S. Ambassador to Germany; Myron Charles Taylor (Cornell, 1894), Chairman of the Finance Committee of U. S. Steel Corp., who recently gave $1,500,000 for a new Cornell Law School. With 41,000 living alumni (5,000 more than Yale), Cornellians felt confident of "a rather unique intercollegiate championship...
Practically all of the world's great composers had, at one time or other, patrons who provided their material support in order that genius might flourish unhampered. The custom is now outworn but last week in San Francisco a semblance of it reappeared when heirs of the late Jacob and Rosa Stern, wealthy Jews, established a fund whereby Jewish Com- poser Ernest Bloch will be endowed for the next ten years at the rate of $5,000 a year. Composer Bloch is regarded by many as the greatest U. S. composer.* Yet his livelihood has had to come largely...
...predecessor Jacob Gould Schurman was popular with German statesmen, who found him a kindred spirit, much as Norwegian bureaucrats feel they have almost a brother in Laurits Selmep Swenson, born at New Sweden, Minn., who has been U. S. Minister to Norway since...
Engaged. Dolores, famed London artists' model .(Sculptor Jacob Epstein et al.); and Philip Yale Drew, actor; at London. Thrice married before, she once wrote the 'story of her busy love life for the Hearst papers. Excerpt: "One vernal spring morning Prince Hitendra [of Cooch Behar] asked me to marry him, but I was so startled at this unexpected proposal that I forgot I was already married, and told him bluntly I could never marry a black...