Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HASTY WEDDING-Mignon G. Eberhart -Doubleday, Doran ($2). The marriage of a Chicago heiress, coming after the murder of her ex-suitor, arouses the suspicions of Detective Jacob Wait. Good characterizations, a sustained atmosphere of horror; one of the best mysteries to come out of Author Eberhart's typewriter...
Seeking Divorce. Madeleine Talmadge Force Astor Dick Fiermonte, 45, widow of John Jacob Astor II; from onetime Pugilist Enzo Fiermonte, 31, her third husband ; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Grounds: extreme cruelty...
...with negatively charged wires on one side, positively charged wires on the other, a sheet of cloth between. When the cloth becomes damp, it completes a weak electric circuit, causes a bell to ring and wake the wetter. Inventor of this ingenious device was Psychology Professor John Jacob Brooke Morgan. 49, bachelor of divinity, twice-married father of two. Chicago and Evanston, Ill. orphans were thus trained to cease their nightly nuisances, by making their dormitories sound like fire stations...
Woodrow Wilson called him the First Citizen of Texas." New York's Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise said he was "the greatest rabbi we've got." Jacob Schiff gave him $500,000 to set up a Jewish Immigrants' Information Bureau in Galveston, Tex., to attract more Jews to the Southwest. Author O. Henry, onetime convict, kindled his interest in parole work, in which he became a U. S. leader. With a shotgun over his shoulder and a bottle of whiskey in his pocket, he led citizens in keeping order after the Galveston hurricane of 1900. At a public...
...Fisherman's Wharf. When the time came round to sign a contract for his junior year, Little Businessman Di Maggio refused $25,000. He thought he was worth $40,000-not a cent less. Remembering well that Yankee Babe Ruth once got $80,000 a year from Owner Jacob Ruppert, Di Maggio held out all through the spring training season...