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Ziegfeld's Folly. Across the U. S. boundary line at Rouse's Point, N. Y., came a train of which one unit was the "Roamer," private car of Jacob Leonard Replogle, New York Steelman. Mr. and Mrs. Replogle were aboard and so were Dr. Jerome Wagner of Manhattan, a brother of U S. Senator Robert Wagner of New York, and Florenz Ziegfeld, famed girl-glorifier, producer of the perennial Follies. They had been visiting at the Wagner camp near Quebec...
Money and the man guarantee the new Commercial National Bank & Trust Co. large activities. Its list of directors indicate a wide influence. It includes: Walter Percy Chrysler, Jacob France, Edward Phillip Farley, Sidney R. Kent, Clement M. Keys, David A. Schulte, William Wrigley...
...posing with other celebrities has been Fielder Ruth's routine for years. What no writer ventured to mention as a possible explanation, aside from professional jealousy and personal politics, was that the man who, as owner of the Yankees, contracts for Fielder Ruth's services, is Col. Jacob Ruppert, onetime beer-brewer. "If Babe Ruth ever posed with any Dry," said a fan, "Jake Ruppert'd slap a fine on him quicker'n you can say 'three strikes...
...Very few U. S. private secretaries have mounted to the top of business. Among those few are: Samuel Insull, John Jacob Raskob, Edward Bok, George Bruce Cortelyou...
...past, as such, was pleasant. Jed Harris, né Jacob Horowitz, could not remember when his family came from Vienna to live in Newark, N. J. But he could remember living there, in a small and hideous house, and going to high school to get ready for college. Of Yale, too, he had pleasant memories. Not the nostalgic memories of a college hero but the more delicious, spiteful recollection of unpopularity among those whom he has since surpassed. At Yale, Jake Horowitz was not the type. After two years, he left Yale and went to Europe...