Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jacob Gruber, a New York lawyer representing a client under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, persuaded a switchboard operator in an SEC office to plug him in on calls to another SEC office. Sentence: a year and a day in prison, $1,000 fine. The operator drew a suspended sentence...
...shrewd bit of trading. Topping and Webb, in partnership with Yankee President Larry MacPhail, had bought the Yankees team, stadium and four farm clubs for $2,800,000 from the estate of Colonel Jacob Ruppert eight years ago. Later they bought out MacPhail's one third share for $2,000,000. After last week's deal with Johnson, Topping and Webb still owned the Yankees, had got back nearly twice their entire investment, and were in a position to write off rent on the stadium against taxes...
Indiana state police officers recommended that motorists wear safety belts and crash helmets. But Dr. Jacob Kulowski of St. Joseph, Mo. took a more radical line. Much of the trouble, he insisted, is in the design of automobiles, and he showed horror pictures to prove it, with front-seat passengers most often the victims. Automakers, he said, should pad the dashboard and get rid of the face-smashing projections which now make it as deadly as a shark's-tooth club...
...information and documents originating in the Treasury Department were either passed on in substance or photographed by Ullmann in a well-equipped laboratory in the basement of the Silvermaster home. Following this step, the material was taken to New York City by courier and made available to Jacob M. Golos until the time of his death...
...also reported that there was in existence another parallel of Soviet Intelligence operating within the United States Government and headed by Victor Perlo. The information gathered from the Perlo group was channeled through Jacob M. Golos and on to the Soviet diplomatic establishment in the same manner as outlined for the operation of the Silvermaster group...