Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election year 1956, two of the major figures on that tapestry are New York City's Democratic Mayor Robert Ferdinand Wagner Jr., the only son of Immigrant Bob Wagner, and New York's Republican Attorney General Jacob Koppel Javits, a son of Immigrant Morris Javits. They have been nominated by their parties to run for the place of retiring Democratic Senator Herbert H. Lehman-and the Wagner-Javits pursuit of New York's polyglot vote involves more nuances, more subtleties, more campaigning and more voters than any other of this year's 36 contests for control...
Pretty blonde Dolly Pullman Astor, 28, who was a $65-a-week receptionist before she married multimillionaire John Jacob Astor III and ditched him six weeks later, had her maintenance raised by the Florida Supreme Court from $75 to $250 a week...
Into the marble-pillared Senate Caucus Room one day last week strode Republican Jacob K. Javits, the attorney general of New York. He was about to repeat in open session what he had just told the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee behind closed doors: the charges that he had knowingly sought Communist help in furthering his career were false. The matter was urgent-both for Jacob Javits and the New York G.O.P. Five days later some 300 Republican committeemen were scheduled to meet in Albany to nominate a candidate for the U.S. Senate, and Javits was the leading contender...
...from a Democrat. For the Republicans, the problem was to find a candidate as well known in the state as Bob Wagner. Former Governor Thomas E. Dewey, U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. and Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall have so far said no. That left State Attorney General Jacob K. Javits, four times a New York Congressman and the only Republican to win statewide office in '54. Jack Javits was willing and eager, but there were some counts against him. Some state G.O.P. leaders felt that his congressional record had been too "liberal." Moreover, there was the fact...
...when Jacob Mayer of the Ruhr's Bochumer Verein steelworks discovered a way to pour white-hot liquid steel into molds and cast the world's first steel bell, other foundrymen could not believe it. At the Paris Exposition of 1855 they launched an investigation, ran chemical tests, were persuaded that the bells were not cast-iron fakeries only after sledge hammers failed to crack them. Last week Bochumer Verein für Gusstahlfabrikation, A.G.,* once again amazed steelmen. Out of its mill came the largest piece of cast steel ever made-a rolling mill foundation block (housing...