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...Died. Isaac Gimbel, 74, board chairman and retired president of Gimbel Bros. Inc. (Gimbel Bros, and Saks, seven department stores in Manhattan, Chicago, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh); of bronchial pneumonia, after several years paralysis; at "Chieftains," his Port Chester, N. Y. home. Born in Vincennes, Ind., son of a Bavarian immigrant storekeeper, he grew up in the business, ran many a store with his father and his brother Jacob. Opening the Manhattan store in 1910, he succeeded President Jacob ("The Judge") Gimbel at his death in 1922, merged the business with Saks & Co. in 1923. He retired...
...Sabbath day, according to Genesis, was not established in Paradise. God ended his work on the seventh day, and blessed it and sanctified it. He did not command Adam and Eve to observe that day as a day of rest. There is no evidence that Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, or any of the other Patriarchs observed the Sabbath. Nor is there evidence that when the Israelites came out of Egypt had they never heard of it. Hence their surprise on receiving double rations of manna on the sixth day (Ex. 16:22), so that they might rest on the Sabbath...
Professor Isidor Isaac Rabi, physicist of Columbia University: "As to blowing up the world by releasing a tremendous quantity of atomic energy-that's most improbable. The worst that could happen is that the scientists might be burned...
From the veterans' viewpoint the particular hero of last week's Bonus activities was New Jersey's Republican Representative Isaac ("Ike") Bacharach. In 1915 Mr. Bacharach went to Congress from Atlantic City. With his father he had prospered in the retail clothing trade, gone into real estate, lumber and banking when Atlantic City began booming as a resort, became a local tycoon. Seniority of service advanced him to the No. 3 majority place on the House Ways & Means Committee. There his dexterous management of politics and finance won him a reputation as the committee's "brain...
Died. Capt. Isaac Edward Emerson, 71, drug manufacturer, president and board chairman of Emerson's Bromo-Seltzer Inc. (a company controlling Citro Chemical Co. of America, Maryland Glass Corp., and Emerson Drug Co.), hotel and realty owner; of heart disease; in Baltimore. Col. Emerson was a famed yachtsman, and with his daughter Margaret (Mrs. Charles Minot Amory, relict of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt who died in the Lusitania disaster) a horse breeder...