Word: jacobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before an Army general court-martial. He was found guilty, as an Army contract officer, of conspiring to defraud the U.S. of $200,000 on Army contracts, sentenced to three years at hard labor, a $12,000 fine and dismissal from the service. Said one of his associates along "Jacob's Beach," hoary Manhattan rendezvous for the pugilistic trade: "He never should of done it during...
Twain and Pigeon. Tesla's experiments, few of them ever finished, were financed by such backers as J. Pierpont Morgan, John Jacob Astor, John Hays Hammond, Thomas Fortune Ryan, Samuel Insull. During the last 20 years of his life, Tesla holed up in a Manhattan hotel room, dreaming of bigger & bigger projects. Before his death last year at 86, he had announced that he was on the verge of: 1) inventing a death ray, 2) communicating with other planets...
...same time, John Rowe, NROTC, and Edwin Jacob '47 will argue the affirmative position in the same question in a debate at Tufts...
...John Jacob Niles is scheduled to give the winter term's first reading in the Morris Gray Poetry Series next Tuesday at 8:15 o'clock in Paine Hall, the department of English announced yesterday...
Married. British Army Major John Jacob Astor, 26, youngest son of out spoken Tory M.P. Lady Astor (without her approval) ; and Anna Inez ("Chiquita") Carcano, 23, vivacious daughter of the Argentine Ambassador to Britain; in London...