Word: jacobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...organizing drive by the Amalgamated, that probably wouldn't be very many or for very long. The Amalgamated has a membership of 375,000, a treasury of $6,000,000, and a hustling set of hard-nosed organizers. For the Amalgamated's president, spade-bearded Jacob Potofsky, Russian-born but no Communist, an elegant old warhorse of trade unionism, it was a fine opportunity. An estimated 6,000,000 store workers in the U.S. are still unorganized...
...other two boys ran through a crowd of 25 passers-by who made no effort to stop them despite Jacob's cries of "Thief, thief." Patrolman Brutti, however, succeeded in getting their names from his young captive...
Secrets In the City. The sons of a Syracuse peddler, 73-year-old Lee and 68-year-old Jacob J. (for nothing) Shubert were already stage-struck in 1885 when an older brother, Sam, got a job as an extra with a visiting road company at $1 a week. When they found that program boys got $1.50 a week, the three brothers switched to the commercial side, and in a few years were leasing theaters-and putting on shows-in Rochester, Albany, Troy, Utica and Buffalo as well as Syracuse...
Died. George Ehret Ruppert, 73, younger brother of the late beer baron, Colonel Jacob Ruppert, and longtime vice president of the colonel's New York Yankees (1915-45); in Manhattan...
Student division--Francis X. Sutton, Junior Prize Fellow in Social Relations; Robert Solow 2G, Jacob C. Levenson, Teaching Fellow; Richard Webster '51, treasurer of the Seminar; William D. Weeks '49, president of the Student Council, and one other member from the Council, as yet undesignated...