Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jacob Cooper Greek Prize...
...University Press has announced two new publications, "John Jacob Astor", by Kenneth Wiggins Porter, research assistant in Business History at the Business School, and "The Proverb", by Professor Archer Taylor of the University of Chicago...
...John Jacob Astor", in two volumes, is the first of a series of studies in business history, which are being edited by N. S. B. Gras, professor of Business History at the Business School. This work not only chronicles the scope of Astor's business career but brings out those elements of personality which led to his unprecedented success...
Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, Baron Moynihan of Leeds, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, had a look at Sculptor Jacob Epstein's Genesis, grotesque figure of primitive pregnancy. Wrote he to his newspaper: "I regret to say that, in my opinion, Epstein is almost certainly guilty of an error in diagnosis. The lady, I think, is not pregnant. . . . The abdominal tumor in position and in salience is not that of pregnancy. . . . The mammary condition is that of an adipose virgin and not of a primiparous woman whose delivery is drawing near. . . . On the available evidence ... I believe that...
This year's is the 25th annual seal in the U. S. In 1904 a Danish postal clerk named Einar Holboell suggested selling seals to finance a children's hospital in Copenhagen. The late Danish immigrant Jacob Riis suggested U. S. adoption of the idea. At Wilmington, Del., Emily Perkins Bissell, Red Cross and social worker, wanted $300 for a tuberculosis shack on the Brandywine. She persuaded the Philadelphia North American to publicize a small seal sale. She realized $3,000. That was in 1907. The National Red Cross snapped up the idea. Until 1919 the Christmas Seals...