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...Marylanders wondered where the money for the France campaign would come from. In 1903 the doctor married the wealthy widow of Jacob Tome, founder of Tome Institute (boys' school) at Port Deposit. Three months after her death in 1927, Dr. France married in Paris a Russian girl by the name of Tatiana Vladimirovna Dechtereva. He was the first U. S. Senator to get into Russia after the revolution, has always advocated cordial relations with the Soviets...
...John Jacob Raskob's political credo contains the following article...
...shooting?TIME, Nov. 24); Mrs. Ida Young, mother of Owen D. Young, who hastened from Phoenix, Ariz, to her side (skull-fracture sustained in a fall downstairs) ; Cinemactor Harold Lloyd (appendectomy) ; Publisher William Howard Gannett of Augusta, Me. (hip-fracture from slipping on a gravel road); one-time Brewer Jacob ("Jake") Ruppert, owner of the New York American League baseball team (bronchitis, acute); Novelist James Joyce (waning eyesight, necessitating a third operation); Singer Mary Garden (bronchitis...
Ever since its exhibition at London's Leicester Galleries two months ago, Sculptor Jacob Epstein's white marble Genesis has moved critics and letters-to-the-Times writers to a frenzy of denunciation. "You white foulness!" the Daily Express called it. Punch published tut-tutting cartoons. Last week the U. S. art world learned that the tide had turned. Genesis had found favorable reviews, and a purchaser. Opined the Manchester Guardian...
What these manufacturers and lawyers wanted most was embodied in a proposal to the Democratic party by its chairman. John Jacob Raskob, at last month's Washington meeting (TIME, March 16): "To free business from unnecessary handicaps. I recommend that the Federal Trade Commission be empowered to hold public hearings whenever leaders in industry desire to present reasons why certain combinations are desirable and necessary. If facts developed indicate that a given combination is not inimical to public interest and does not violate the spirit of the Sherman law, then the Federal Trade Commission should be empowered to issue...