Word: jacobs
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...News has issued bulletins on the sex of its baby rats. Alleged rate of success: 75%. Last month, Professor Elmer Roberts of the University of Illinois, working independently of the News, announced that he had predetermined the sex of 1,800 rats. At the same time, Dr. Leon Jacob Cole of the University of Wisconsin reported that, with his rats and rabbits, the system failed to work. Another independent worker, Dr. John Henry Quisenberry of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, found that acid and alkali douches worked with rabbits, not with rats...
...Francisco, where many hospital staff members fell sick. Health Officer Jacob Casson Geiger asked for a $7,500 appropriation to hire substitutes, ordered postponement of all operations except for emergencies...
John Astor Drayton, tall, 26-year-old great-great-great-grandson of John Jacob Astor (who in 1937 was with John Roosevelt in Cannes the night there was a rumpus because someone squirted champagne on the Mayor), passed his physical examinations, headed for Fort Dix, N. J. with 191 other volunteers. "Come on, blue blood," yelled another rookie. "Right with you, chum," answered Drayton...
...died in 1922, they also owned the stately London Times, the Daily Mirror, various lesser publishing enterprises. Out of a welter of involved deals and suits that followed Northcliffe's death, Rothermere emerged with control of all these properties except the Times, which was sold to Major John Jacob Astor...
Early American Carols and Folk Songs (John Jacob Niles, ballad singer; Victor: 8 sides; $3.50). Strumming a dulcimer, Kentuckian Niles croons ancient carols, rousing ditties like The Frog and the Mouse and The Carrion Crow...