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...contest for the medal France-Amerique, six men were chosen last night to speak in the finals to be held the last week in May. The men selected were: Gregory Stone '30, G. W. Sands '30, R. M. Kellogg '30, E. C. Tatham '30, L. R. Shulman '32, and Jacob Canter...
...friends Jacob Loeb and Nathaniel King. New directors included: Harley Clarke (new Fox chief), Matthew C. Brush of American International; Charles B. Stuart, brother of Harry Stuart (Halsey, Stuart & Co.). John Edward Otterson (for American Telephone & Telegraph) was not included...
...abetting a new form of racket in post office leases throughout the land. On the Senate floor the Department was flayed for renting, often without competitive bids, not less than 27 offices, including those in St. Paul, Dallas, Grand Rapids, and Columbus, Ohio, from a Chicago syndicate known as Jacob Kulp & Co. It was charged that the Kulp concern did what amounted to a brokerage business in postal leases, had issued some $150,000.000 in bonds on the strength of these leases, which was vastly in excess of the true value of the properties rented...
Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley was last week urged to buy blue dress uniforms for all Army enlisted men as a means of improving their morale, quickening their esthetic sense. The suggestion was conveyed to him by Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, relict of Representative John Jacob Rogers. Lowell textile tycoon. Lest anyone think she had the selfish motive of trying to help the textile industry, Mrs. Rogers explained: "Wartime khaki uniforms are drab and tiresome to the eye. . . ." Moreover, she pointed out, blue uniforms would call for black shoes, and orders for shoes are needed quite...
Senate Republicans last week failed to squeeze John Jacob Raskob, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, into a political hole quite so uncomfortable as the one into which Senate Democrats had placed Claudius Hart Huston, chairman of the Republican National Committee (TIME, March 31). Mr. Huston had been caught lobbying on Muscle Shoals. If Mr. Raskob could be caught lobbying on Prohibition, the score between the party leaders would be even...