Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prisoner, booked as Jacob "Jack" Lewis, was captured last Friday in a raid on a South End hotel. Held for questioning over the weekend, he was arraigned yesterday morning and pleaded not guilty to charges of participation in January's smoke-bomb holdup...
...onetime newsman for Pravda and Tass, the U.S.S.R.'s Jacob M. Lomakin is an expert on the Russian press. Last week at Lake Success, U.N. Delegate Lomakin enlightened U.N.'s Subcommission on Freedom of Information and of the Press. What was it, he asked, that kept Russia and the West from getting on with the peace? Why, it was those warmongering, imperialist, monopolist newspapers of the U.S. and Britain. They have too much freedom and "they trade in news as one trades in tobacco products . . . [for] profit." He wanted a resolution to punish them...
...have the other barrel. "[He] complains of a slanderous campaign . . . against the Soviet Union. Does he read his own newspapers? Do the Soviet papers dispense soothing syrups? If Hearst is wrong, the New York Times or the Washington Post or someone else will correct it. But who corrects Pravda?" Jacob Lomakin said nothing. For Pravda and Lomakin take orders from the same boss...
...efforts; it is a commentary on the writing of American history that most of the men themselves are unknown. There are volumes on the staff officers of Robert E. Lee, but who, aside from students, knows George Wythe and John Blair, James Wilson, Luther Martin, William Paterson, Richard Bassett, Jacob Broom or Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer? Something is wrong with any definition of greatness that excludes them...
Answering a speech by Jacob M. Lomakin, former Soviet writer, who charged the American and British press with "war-mongering," monopolistic practices, and promoting war with Russia, Professor Chafee labelled the 1930 "divide-Europe" agreement between the Soviet and Germany as "real imperialism...