Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pioneered as high-volume manufacturers of men's clothing ("One just price and just one price"). They brought out the first honest-to-goodness virgin-wool suits in 1900, and a tropical-weight suit in 1917. About the same time in Rochester, two other clothiers, Jeremiah Hickey and Jacob Freeman, were sewing up their own vested interests. Last week the two companies that these men founded joined hands across the rack in an $11 million stock-swapping merger deal...
...million manufacturing and retail business, has 101 stores in 43 cities, including Wallachs in Manhattan, Baskin in Chicago, and Stevens in New Orleans. Smaller Hickey-Freeman is still a private family firm, run by President Walter B. D. Hickey (son of Jeremiah) and Vice President Albert Freeman (nephew of Jacob...
...sacred Body." Sachs got to know most of the sacred bodies. Cocteau gave him some secretarial work to do, and he repaid his benefactor by painting him as a kind of cultural public-relations man who took the "rediscovered imagery" of "tough, miserable men" like Apollinaire and Max Jacob and "vulgarized the knowledge of it." Andre Malraux, too, "was something of the charlatan," but Gide was the wholly incorruptible artist, a man with a face that "no fattening passion burdened" and with lips "straight as those of someone who has never lied...
...King Arthur and tempered by romantic Pre-Raphaelite gentility, adorned the covers of Collier's, Century and Scribner's. His best-known commission (around $50,000) was a 28-ft.-long mural of Old King Cole for the merry old souls in the bar of John Jacob Astor's Hotel Knickerbocker, which can still be seen in Manhattan's Hotel St. Regis. Medieval nobility was a deathless theme for Parrish; even the caption for his 1921 Jell-O ad ran: "The King and Queen might eat hereof and Noblemen besides." Parrish was indeed, the pop artist...
...references to Jews (and Protestants)-and urged textbook writers to take greater care in discussing other faiths. The Lutheran World Federation's Commission on World Mission at a consultation in Denmark declared that anti-Semitism is "a demonic form of rebellion against the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and a rejection of Jesus the Jew, directed upon his people." And in Florence, European representatives of an international society for Christian-Jewish cooperation met to discuss their latest efforts to combat antiSemitism. There, Catholics and Protestants attended a service of prayer at the city's Jewish temple...