Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ebullient boy was Sculptor Jacob Epstein...
...publishing a story that he had "shortchanged" some performers 74? apiece on their rehearsal pay, veteran Broadway Producer Jacob J. ("Jake") Shubert sued the theatrical trade paper Variety for libel, asked $100,000 damages...
...Senate confirmed rank of lieutenant general for Armored Forces' Chief Jacob L. Devers, making his rank equal to that of Air Forces' H. H. Arnold, Ground Forces' Lesley J. McNair, Services of Supply's Brehon B. Somervell. On the same day, Brigadier General Andrew D. Bruce of the Tank Destroyer Command, Camp Hood, Texas (TIME, July 13) became a major general...
...last year, when the Germans definitely were not frozen out. Moreover, the Germans were feverishly preparing to beat General Winter. Hitler appointed three of his best generals to organize the winter front: Colonel General Franz Haider, canny Chief of the General Staff (TIME, Jan. 13, 1941), General Alfred Jacob, who helped build the Westwall fortifications in 1938, and General Gustav von Wietersheim, a supply expert whose vast job would surely tax all his talents...
...Died. Jacob Schurman, 88, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1925-30), longtime (1892-1920) president of Cornell University; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Canadian-born he joined the Cornell faculty at the age of 32 as head of the department of philosophy, became president at 38. On leaves, he headed McKinley's first U.S. Philippine Commission in 1899, was Taft's Minister to Greece and Montenegro in 1912. He resigned from Cornell in 1920, was appointed Harding's Minister to China in 1921. As Coolidge's Ambassador to Germany he plumped hard for its rehabilitation...