Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Albert Cabell ("Bert") Ritchie, the handsome, smiling, divorced Governor of Maryland, went to New York City. An elevator shot him up to the 32nd floor of the Empire State Building. There Alfred Emanuel Smith and John Jacob Raskob wrung his hand in warm welcome. For more than an hour these three potent Democrats talked campaign politics. Later Governor Ritchie addressed the Academy of Political Science, said nothing important well. Cordial to all newshawks, he gave frequent interviews depicting the certainty of Democratic success in 1932. At a reunion dinner of the War Industries Board, which he had served...
...Publisher McLean was a Miss Rose Douras Van Cleve, widely identified by the U. S. Press as a sister of Marion Davies. Other Riga divorce-getters, di-vorce-seekers: Impresario Max Reinhardt, German Novelist Jakob Wassermann, Composer Eugen d'Albert. Princess Alice Muriel (daughter of the late John Jacob Astor) Obolensky...
Aged 76, "General" Jacob Sechler Coxey, who led an army of unemployed on Washington 37 years ago, was elected Republican mayor of Massillon, Ohio. Many times a candidate, this was the General's first political victory...
...simple young immigrant. Her family settled in Rochester, N. Y. and Emma went to work like anybody else. The execution of the Chicago anarchists (1887) turned Emma Goldman's stomach, transformed her from a potential to an actual Red. Meantime she had married (at 18) one Jacob Kershner, whom she quickly discovered was impotent. Emma left him, her family and respectability, went to Manhattan to plunge into anarchism and free love. She made rapid headway in both...
...Jacob J. ("Jake") Shubert were born in Syracuse, N. Y. In 1900 they came to New York and bucked the powerful Klaw & Erlanger theatrical trust by renting the Herald Square Theatre and persuading resonant Richard Mansfield to act in it. Five years later Sam Shubert was killed in a Pennsylvania Railroad wreck. Lee and Jake (who hates to be called Jake in print) carried on the business and prospered mightily. They bought theatres, built theatres (with the assistance of innumerable unofficial partners). They made New York's most imposing music hall out of an old riding ring on Broadway...