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Citizens wondered what, if any, relation or comparison there might be between Mr. Ford's reasoning processes and the processes of John Jacob Raskob, retired finance chairman of General Motors, the biggest Ford competitor. Long before his new political activities caused him to withdraw from General Motors, Mr. Raskob was, as everyone knows, active in the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment...
Europa had a bottle of champagne smashed over her sharp nose, last week at Hamburg, after the U. S. Ambassador to Germany, Jacob Gould Schurman, had delivered the launching oration in fluent German...
...nickel salts. Scientists coupled this observation with the known fact that soil qualities modify the characteristics of peoples through the plant life eaten directly or indirectly (through herbivorous animals). Example: In Switzerland where iodine is rare, goitre is common. Feeblemindedness and dwarfism are therefore frequent. The recommendation of Dean Jacob G. Lipman of the Rutgers College of Agriculture was that agriculturists go still further in seeking what proper elements their soil lacks and intelligently supply the deficiency in fertilizers...
...last year. Out of its plenty, General Motors made a great and generous gesture. It dickered for a time with Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., then announced a contract for a $400,000,000 life, sickness and accident policy, open to any employe from President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., to Jacob Hazay, who works a grinding machine at the Detroit plant. Jacob Hazay earns $32 a week. To share in the insurance plan, he must pay a premium of $1.50 a month, or about one cent on every dollar he makes. If he dies, Mrs. Hazay will...
Elections. The committee then listened to Josiah Marvel, a swarthy, elderly country gentleman from Delaware. Mr. Marvel said that Delaware offered to the Democracy a manager who could think the way average Americans think from trolley conductors to potent capitalists. He nominated John Jacob Raskob of Delaware for chairman of the committee. Mr. Raskob was unanimously elected. The committee elected other officers as follows...