Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...element of thought at the University. Two issues do not provide sufficient material to form any judgment. Nevertheless even in the current issue the articles forcibly direct our attention to the problem of "the discovery of the self," be it by means of Gnosis, its historical emergence-according to Jacob Taubes-or of an adequate understanding of Existential historicity-according to Paul...
...Washington office Harry Jacob Anslinger keeps a sinister collection of heroin, opium pipes, and other paraphernalia seized by the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics, which he organized in 1930 and has headed ever since. Last week Commissioner Anslinger, 62, a Pennsylvania Dutchman who knows more about the worldwide drug traffic than any other man on earth. reported to the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee a growing narcotic menace: Communist China's $60 million-a-year dope trade, deliberately and officially pursued to earn foreign exchange, "finance political activities, and spread addiction among free peoples...
...first tested by the Government when Claude Lightfoot was convicted in Chicago last month, and released in $5,000 bail. The five were: Eugene Dennis, 50, former general secretary of the U.S. Communist Party; John Gates, 42, former Daily Worker editor; John B. Williamson. 52, former party labor secretary; Jacob A. Stachel, 55, former educational director; Carl Winter, 48, former Michigan state chairman...
Shrouded in all the mystery of an atomic shipment, three huge packing cases arrived last week in Philadelphia. In them were seven tons of bronze sculpture by Britain's famed U.S.-born sculptor, Sir Jacob Epstein. They had been cast in secrecy in a London foundry so that Philadelphians would get first look at the newest adornment to their city: a group of five bronze figures, representing "Social Consciousness," to stand as a part of the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park...
...scandal has reached such proportions that Congress is considering an investigation of the hucksters who promise phony bargains over the air. Last week in Los Angeles, seven shady TV pitchmen were charged with fraud. In New York, Attorney General Jacob Javits asked the state legislature for power to ask injunctions against bait advertisers...