Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Died. Jacob Blaustein, 78, founder of the American Oil Co. and former president of the American Jewish Committee; in Baltimore. With his father, Blaustein set up the first drive-in gas station in 1915, devised the first pump with a meter that read in dollars and cents, and introduced the first antiknock fuel (it powered Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis to Europe in 1927). As a Jewish activist, Blaustein played a major role in persuading David Ben-Gurion to accept the U.N. plan to partition Palestine in 1948, and in negotiations with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...
When organized in New York eight years ago, the Conservative Party consisted mainly of right-wing Republicans who could not abide the liberal wing led by Nelson Rockefeller, Jacob Javits and John Lindsay. Now the Conservatives have expanded beyond nuisance stature by attracting disaffected Democrats, principally blue-collar and middle-class Catholics, whose influence in the Democratic Party withered as Jews, blacks and Puerto Ricans gained power...
DELAWARE: Here is a clear liberal vs. conservative race. The conservative, Republican Rep. William V. Roth, is the front runner. Opposing him for the seat being relinquished by retiring Republican Senator John J. Williams is Democrat Jacob W. Zimmerman. Zimmerman is a strong opponent of the war and favors limiting the war-making powers of the President. In a state which is owned lock, stock and barrel by the Duponts and which has a sizeable group of Wallace supporters, Zimmerman is clearly the underdog...
...interviewer was TIME Correspondent Jacob Simms; the speaker was Hoyt Fuller, managing editor of Black World magazine; the subject was the black journalist's distrust of a white world. "The black revolt," Fuller says, "is as palpable in letters as it is in the streets." Several small magazines (among them Liberator, Freedomways) are struggling to provide an outlet for the resulting explosions of prose and poetry. Fuller's Black World is by far the most influential and widely read (circulation: more than...
...accorded to the Pope's Jews centuries ago. "During the last war," he recalls, "I wasn't arrested because I could prove I was a Pope's Jew. I actually went down to the Carpentras library to look up my family tree. I got back to Jacob crémieux, who was born in Carpentras in 1611. That was good enough for the Pétainists. Later on, four French fascist policemen prepared to arrest me anyway. But then an American bomb blew up police headquarters and killed the four." Unfortunately, crémieux will...