Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eleven days after the U.S. formally proposed it, the U.N. Assembly voted a strategic embargo against Red China and North Korea. Russia's Jacob Malik and Soviet satellite spokesmen growled: "Illegal . . . shameful." India's Sir Senegal Rau fretted: "[It] may add to the difficulties of an honorable settlement by creating yet another psychological hurdle." Turkey's Selim Sarper retorted: "[It] is only a beginning and a modest one." At debate's end, an overwhelming U.N. majority agreed with the Turkish spokesman, swiftly brushed protest and doubt aside. The Assembly approved the measure...
Died. "General" Jacob Sechler Coxey, 97, eccentric businessman, sportsman and monetary theorist, whose stone quarries, racing stable, patent medicine, arsenic mines, ill-starred stabs at politics were all but eclipsed by the 1894 depression march on Washington of his "Commonweal of Christ" (known to posterity as "Coxey's Army"); after a stroke; in Massillon, Ohio. On Easter Sunday, 1894, seated in a phaeton drawn by his $40,000 thoroughbred pacer, well-heeled Employer Coxey and his unemployed tatterdemalions set out for the capital to pressure Congress into accepting his economic cureall: interest-free local bond issues for public works...
...people see?" trumpeted Senator Charles Tobey in the first flush of satisfaction over the televised Kefauver hearings. With equal enthusiasm, Manhattan's Congressman Jacob Javits wanted TV to sit in on major congressional debates just as it does on U.N. sessions, argued that it would be essentially no different from "expanding the size of the gallery of the House." Representative Edwin Hall (N.Y.) urged that all sessions of Congress be televised...
...shabby-looking, aging (63) gaffer with dark glasses and a straggle of white hair, who ambled into the crowded room like some ancient and anxious raccoon being ushered into a kennelful of police dogs. He sat on the edge of his chair, feet dangling, conceded that he was Jacob Guzik, and then announced that he would refuse to "answer any questions whatever on the grounds of incrimination...
...confused with "Coxey's Army" of 300, led by Jacob Coxey in 1894 for the same purpose...