Word: jacob
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This shocker was based on a letter which "fell into the hands of the Spanish Chief of State" in 1943, according to Figaro. It was supposedly written by President Roosevelt to Jacob Zabronsky, president of the National Council of Young Israel, and it designated him Roosevelt's secret emissary to Stalin. It instructed Zabronsky to promise Finland and the Baltic states to Stalin, as well as a port on the Mediterranean, and commented on Red Marshal Timoshenko's "short but fruitful stay" in Washington. It ended with thanks to Zabronsky for presenting F.D.R. with a copy...
...Republican Party may ceases to be a major party if it doesn't win in 1952," Representative Jacob M. Javite (R-N.Y.) said last night in the year's ninth Law School Forum on the topic "The Realignment of Political Parties...
Senator William Langer (R., N.D.) will appear with Representatives Jacob M. Javits (R., N.Y.), and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (D., N.Y.). Paul A. Freund, Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law, will moderate the forum, and the Forum office indicated last night that a fourth speaker might still be added...
South Dakota's Senator Francis Case got a request from a constituent. World War II Marine Corps Ace Joseph Jacob Foss, 35, Congressional Medal of Honor winner credited with shooting down 26 enemy planes over Guadalcanal, now lieutenant colonel and commander of South Dakota's Air National Guard, wanted to fight again. It would take a waiver of a rule prohibiting Medal of Honor winners from combat duty. Said the Senator: "Joe said he'd almost be willing to return the medal, if this would enable him to get combat duty...
...Wall Street" (1835-1916); in Manhattan. As a girl, she often lived in shabby flats, cooked and sewed to save pennies for her millionaire mother. She grew up an ungainly recluse, usually dressed in black, at 38 married 57-year-old Matthew Astor Wilks, great-grandson of Millionaire John Jacob Astor I. Wilks left her a mere million to add to nearly $50 million from her mother, $43 million from her brother. Like her mother, she spent little on herself, less on others, multiplied her fortune through stocks and real estate. She left no immediate heirs...