Word: jacobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These pictures are evidence that on the apparent eve of Invasion the American people had not lost interest in the problems of more-or-less-normal living. In the center, "General" Jacob S. Coxey, leader of the famed Coxey's Army of 1894, addresses the national convention of Hoboes of America, Inc. Meeting over a Washington saloon, the hoboes solemnly discussed the decay of youthful morals, wanderlust, the curse of the Machine Age, non-interest-bearing bonds...
Feet First. The actual ejection of the $100,000-a-year board chairman of Montgomery Ward was carried out by Sergeant Jacob L. Lepak of Milwaukee and Private Cecil A. Dies of Memphis. The two soldiers picked 170-lb. Sewell Avery up by his arms and thighs, carried him to the elevator. Mr. Avery refused to walk in; the soldiers picked him up again. In the elevator Sewell Avery said: "I'll be glad when this is over." On the main floor he again refused to budge. The soldiers hoisted him up, carried him past a handful of startled...
Chairman of SKF's board of directors is talented, energetic Sven Wingquist. One of its influential directors is big, powerful Jacob Wallenberg, banker, match-truster a man of many financial interests, including some in Germany...
Professors Benjamin M. Anderson, of U. C. L. A., Howard S. Ellis, of the University of California, and Jacob Viner, of the University of Chicago, will complete the group. Hansen, Slichter, and Viner are former presidents of the American Economic Association...
...perhaps 40 leather covers on its butt. With it he won the straight-rail world championship from Maurice Daly in 1877, the Champions Game title from Maurice Vigneaux in 1882, the cushion-caroms title in 1884, the 14.2 balkline championship in 1887, the 18.1 balkline title from Jacob ("Wizard") Schaefer in 1888, the 18.2 balkline title from Willie Hoppe...