Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Built in 1893 by men who knew the value of that citizenship-Isidor Straus (R. H. Macy & Co.), Jacob Schiff (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), and other leaders of _New York's Jewish community-the Alliance filled a great gap in the lives of immigrants. There a man could come to learn English, use the library or the gymnasium, attend religious services or smoke a pipe with a Landsmann over a game of checkers. There mothers, still wearing sheitels, could learn the language that their children were picking up quickly in public school. And the kids themselves could come after school...
...Jacob Lewis, one of the gang who staged the Coop "smoke-bomb" robbery four years ago, was freed from State Prison yesterday. The state supreme court, upholding his appeal for a sentence of larceny, not robbery as originally given, took into account that he had already served the minimum four years, and gave him his liberty...
...Recently I attended a luncheon meeting of newspaper and magazine publishers in honor of Colonel John Jacob Astor, chairman of the London Times. Colonel Astor had come to ask for help in finding the next of kin of U.S. servicemen killed in Britain, or in operations based on Britain, during World War II. The Times, he explained, wants to give these near relatives a book it has just published, Britain's Homage to 28,000 American Dead...
Also elected were Joshua Kurland Kopp, Dorchester, Mass. and Lowell, Physics; Frederick London Moolten, Highland Park, N. J. and Lowell, Biochemistry; Jack Jacob Neusner, West Hartford, Connecticut and Kirkland, History; David Marvin Osnos, Detroit and Kirkland, English; Herbert Victor Prochnow, Jr. Evanston, Illinois and Eliot, Economics...
...advantage of student loyalty. Let them make up their deficit some other way. Who wants to deal with such a morally corrupt outfit? Let Mr. Lunden beware of arrogance in these days of plenty: next year he may want to sell tickets for the Harvard Ohio University game. Mark Jacob...