Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Benjamin C. Rigger Henry B. Robbins, Edward R. Sargent, Roland W. Smith, Jr., William Sidney Smoot, Jacob I. Toyster, Richard L. Turcotte, and Richard J. Youdin...
...Paso Jew named Jacob Ehrlich, who calls himself Jack Earle when on exhibition, claims to be 8 ft. 6 in. That height seems to be a favorite among sideshow giants. John G. Tarver of Alba, Tex., claims it. Clifford Thompson of Stevens Point, Wis. claims an inch more. Dr. Humberd frankly does not believe them. He insists that they fake their real heights by wearing high-heeled shoes and tall hats...
...Debating Society in the subsequent debates scheduled: Jerome L. Gilbert and Rodman Gilder, Jr., Holy Cross, here, March 3; Victor C. Vaughan, 3rd and Paul W. Cherington, Boston College, March 8, away; Phil C. Neal and Robin Scully, Exeter, March 12, away; and Garfield H. Horn, Louis Hartz, and Jacob J. Kaplan, Boston Latin School, March 19, away...
...Jacob Bertha Levison, 75, somewhat resembles the eminent flutist Georges Barrère in his close-cropped, courtly white beard and twinkling eyes. He too plays the flute, but this and his long patronage of music in San Francisco are matters of diversion. For 60 years Mr. Levison's business has been with disaster by land & sea. Fortnight ago he retired from the presidency to the chairmanship of San Francisco's famed Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. Last week its two main subsidiaries confirmed him in the same change of office. Having thus ended 20 years...
...evening of April 21, 1906, Fireman's Fund, with a capital of $1,000,000 and assets of $7,000,000, owed its policyholders in the smoldering city more than $11,000,000. Then vice president in charge of the marine division, Jacob Levison proposed the formation of a new company to take over the insurance of the old, minus San Francisco losses. Each director was asked to subscribe to stock in the new corporation in a ratio of twice the amount of the par value of his former holdings. All but one agreed. Mr. Levison made their subscription...