Word: jacobs
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...house at No. 277 Madison Avenue. His purpose remains obscure. When World Housewreckers opened the vault, it contained only an ancient artillery shell. Whatever the General's purpose, he did his work well. The house came down "nice and easy," but the vault required an arduous siege.* Said Foreman Jacob Camen: "We've been gnawing at it for three days now with pneumatic drills and acetylene torches and so far haven't made much of an impression. It probably'll take us two days more. I hope we don't have to use dynamite...
There is one type of structure, and only one, which the modern housewrecker with all his pneumatic drills and acetylene torches finds himself hard put to destroy. Even the late Jacob Volk, who called him- self ''the most destructive force in Manhattan," even the Napoleonic Herman Sonken of Kansas City, who has torn down whole towns and railroads in his time?even such experienced destroyers have much respect for vaults, especially vaults of reinforced concrete lined with steel...
Israel Benjamin Brodie, 46, Manhattan lawyer; Palestine economic. William M. Lewis, 45. Philadelphia municipal judge ; gift funds. Jacob de Haas, '57, Manhattan writer, lecturer; organization. James Guttheim Heller, 38, Cincinnati rabbi, music critic; cultural activities. Abraham Tulin, 47, Manhattan lawyer; publications...
...world's record in support of edu-cation." The first week in April, Cornellmen all over the U. S. and Canada were solicited for alma mater in a campaign patterned after the Red Cross roll-call. Over the radio went the voices of longtime (1892-1920) President Jacob Gould Schurman, President Livingston Farrand and Myron Charles Taylor, Class of 1894, chairman of U. S. Steel Corp.'s finance committee. Campaigners strove to overpass Yale's record for alumni subscribers (9,493) made in 1928. Cornell results: total subscribers for year ending June 30: 10,134. Total gifts...
...Jacob de Haas, Mrs. Edward Jacobs...