Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...services with local coverage . . . and independent services for television and overseas. . . . A monopoly . . . can indulge in all the slogans of 'free controversy' and the rest. The fact remains that not a sound can issue from its transmitters without its leave. . . . The voice is always the voice of Jacob...
...fill Hillman's job as president of the Amalgamated, the clothing workers chose another old Hillman follower: secretary-treasurer Jacob S. Potofsky. His greying spade beard gives him the appearance of an elegant professor. He is a devout conservative and a hardheaded labor businessman...
Chosen to be director of this administrative board was John Jacob (Jack) Kroll, plodding vice president of Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers, assistant chairman of Hillman's P.A.C. Hillman's trouble shooter and Hillman's old and loyal friend. Other members were the secretary-treasurers of four of C.I.O.'s biggest unions: the steel Workers' David J. McDonald and the textile workers' William Pollock, who stand to the right of the political center; the auto workers' George Addes, whom U.A.W.'s Communist groups have long supported; the Communist-influenced electrical workers...
...rebuilding the agency fell in 1921 to a dynamic, Polish-born Old Bolshevik named Jacob Doletsky. Doletsky worked out news-exchange deals with A.P Boss Kent Cooper and U.P. President Karl Bickel. (A.P. and U.P. give Tass their own U.S. news reports in return for Tass coverage of Russia...
Reflex. In Manhattan, when detectives tracking down two hotel robbers approached Jacob Strouse, standing in an alley, he tried to jump a 6-ft. fence, broke his leg. The detectives later found he had nothing to do with the holdup...