Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Billy Watson (born Isaac Levy) retired from the burlesque business he had made his pile. At 72 he still had plenty, but felt that he was "going nuts from not doing anything." So last week he gave a heave and a shove, and out on a Philadelphia stage waddled his revived Beef Trust, once the prime ribs of burlesque. The current show, Watson claims, is an exact duplicate, gags and all, of the old-time one. But in 1898 top weight for burlesque beauties was 180 pounds; today all Beef-Trusters weigh 200 or more. The Trust...
...York City are union-made-except W. & I. Blumenthal's "Ukor" brand. Among methods used by the Butchers' Union to bring pressure on the company was picketing of retailers handling Ukor products. Among the retailers picketed was an East Side delicatessen shop owned by one Isaac Goldfinger. Mr. Goldfinger's staff consisted solely of Mr. Goldfinger. and after pickets with English and Yiddish placards had cut his trade by an estimated $100 per week he hied himself to court, won an injunction. The union promptly took the case to the New York State Court of Appeals...
Last week in a nationally noted decision the court ruled against Isaac Goldfinger. Though confirming the injunction as it applied to obstreperous picketing tactics, the court held that secondary picketing was perfectly legal provided: 1) it was peaceful, and 2) it was directed not against Mr. Goldfinger but against the Ukor products he insisted on handling. Said the opinion: "Where the manufacturer disposes of the product through retailers in unity of interest with it, unless the union may follow the product to the place where it is sold and peacefully ask the public to refrain from purchasing it, the union...
Chicago is the home of some of the nation's foremost baby specialists (notably Northwestern University's Isaac Arthur Abt and University of Illinois' Julius Hays Hess) and the world's No. 1 obstetrician -Dr. Joseph Bolivar De Lee. He tirelessly preaches that, to prevent the spread of infection among mothers and children, all hospitals should not only have separate sections but separate buildings for the delivery and nursing of children and the convalescence of post partum women...
...printed a 250-volume edition of the memoirs, which was privately circulated. Last week, the great event in the Institute's life was the publication, with the consent of living members of the family, of a 2,500-volume limited edition (518 pages, $5), of The Autobiography of Isaac Jones Wistar...