Word: jacob
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Life Beneath the El. White's parents were Jacob and Sarah Weit, who came to the U.S. from Lithuania (then a province of Russia). A peddler, Jacob moved into the hardware and crockery business, and at one time the family had four stores. Harry White was born Oct. 29, 1892, at 57 Lowell Street, Boston, in a crowded, busy, tenement district beneath the dust and roar of the el. A nervous boy, he belonged to a grade-school group that met one night a week at the Webster Literary Club, where each boy would write and read a composition...
...Waterbug." Harry Dexter White was plucked out of Appleton and taken to Washington in June 1934 by Professor Jacob Viner, the internationally known economist, then a Treasury official. White went to the capital only for a summer assignment: to study the gold standard and international trade. By fall he had settled down to a long career in the Treasury-and an interesting career it was. He was not a great economist. His specialty was international payments, which does not require much theoretical ability but does pose intricate problems, as chess does. In the 1930s, White wrote some rather original memoranda...
Gathering dust in some Capitol Hill pigeon hole is a bill that could have prevented the Harry Dexter white fiasco, and saved the present Administration much embarrassment. Written by New York Representative Jacob Javitts, the bill would establish uniform rules for conducting investigations...
...discussing in Parliament last week Anglo-American relations (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Conservative M.P. John Jacob Astor pointed to one major source of trouble that he could speak about with authority. Said Major Astor, whose family controls the London Times and Sunday Observer: "I should like to draw attention to ... the completely inadequate space which the British press and the BBC give to American news. Although I appreciate that we have much less space than have the American papers, I believe those responsible for the press in America serve their public a good deal better than the press serves its public...
...York Daily Graphic ran a shot of "Shantytown" (the squatters' nest that later became the fashionable Upper East Side), in halftone reproduction. News photography soon became a profession, and men who learned to seize the exact moment when events show dramatically clear often made great pictures. Muckraking Journalist Jacob A. Riis stirred the U.S. with his stones and photographs of New York slums. Despite its occasional successes, the full potentialities of picture journalism were not grasped until 1936, when LIFE was founded on the proposition that "photography is the most important instrument of journalism which has been developed since...