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...Jewish tailor, Jacobs began with the only racers that could find moving room in New York City: homing pigeons. In 1926 he tapped his pigeons' nest egg for $1,500 to buy a nag named Reveillon. Two years later, he struck up an alliance with Shakespeare-spieling Isador ("Kid") Bieber, a onetime Broadway ticket scalper famed for his big bets (he won $60,000 by backing an underdog incumbent named Woodrow Wilson...
Meeting with the President will be members of his Science Advisory Committee, which reports to him through the Office of Defense Mobilization. It is headed by Dr. Isador Rabi, professor of Physics at Columbia University...
Harriman has given some top jobs to such oldtime New Dealers as Dr. Isador Lubin (ex-U.S. Commissioner of Labor Statistics) and Paul Appleby (ex-Under Secretary of Agriculture), with whom he once served in Washington. He has some immediate problems, notably a $75 million rise in state operating costs, which might require an increase in state income taxes. Basically, he inherited an exceedingly sound administration from retiring Republican Governor Thomas E. Dewey. When Dewey left Albany, after twelve years in office, there was a leak...
...M.I.T. case broke into the headlines on April 22, when William T. Martin, head of the Mathematics department and Isador Amdur, professor of Chemistry, told the Un-American Activities Commit in open session that they had joined the Communist party in 1938 but quit in 1946 and 1944 respectively. Martin named Norman Levinson, associate professor of Mathematics, and Professors Arguimbau and Struik as members of the cell...
...most part, Levinson's testimony was similar to that given by his colleagues, Professors William T. Martin and Isador Ambur. He was unable, however, to identify Dirk J. Struik, suspended professor of mathematics at M.I.T., as a Communist Party member. "I am uncertain about Struik," he said. "Just being a member of the group didn't necessarily mean you were a member of the party...