Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the mouth of Elizabeth Bentley, onetime courier for Soviet Spymaster Jacob Golos, came corroboration of the damaging testimony already given by Remington's divorced wife. Ann Moos Remington had told of their solemnly intellectual college romance; of how, when he proposed, she had exacted his promise that "he would continue to be a Communist"; of how, later, when he was working for the War Production Board, he passed on war secrets to Miss Bentley (TIME, Jan. 8). Miss Bentley said that she had met Remington secretly and frequently in Washington, that he paid party dues...
...been introduced to Joe North, editor of the leftist New Masses, at his mother-in-law's home in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., where North was living in Mrs. Moos's garage; that North had introduced him to a "John somebody" (who turned out later to be Jacob Golos); that Golos had introduced him to Miss Bentley. He had given her some information, but it was harmless stuff, not secret; he had thought Miss Bentley was a journalist...
Said Lieut. Jacob Kratt, flying top cover: "I rolled over and came down fast, and got in a good long burst on the No. 2 MIG. Smoke poured out of his tail, and he turned to the Manchurian side, and that apparently disorganized their attack, as two more of our flights made passes at the field, and nobody got bounced on his run. My wingman said that when he passed my MIG it was flaming...
...anyhow, two of them were arrested, charged with disorderly conduct, and fined. Ruled the Supreme Court (unanimously): conviction reversed.*The right of free speech "has a firmer foundation than the whims or personal opinions of a local governing body." ¶In 1946, New York City revoked Baptist Minister Carl Jacob Kunz's permit to preach at street meetings because of his constant, explosive rantings. (He called the Pope the "anti-Christ," Jews "Christ-killers.") When Kunz continued to rant, the city pinched him, in 1948, for preaching without a permit, and fined him $10. Ruled the Supreme Court...
...chair in which the Kings of Scotland had been crowned for the previous 453 years. Before that, the Stone had rested at Dunstaffnage, Argyllshire, headquarters of even earlier Scots chieftains. Tradition says that the Stone had been brought from Ireland and was originally one of the stones upon which Jacob had rested his head (Genesis 28:18) when he dreamed of Israel. Scots call it Lia Fail (Stone of Destiny), but geologists insist that it is an ordinary piece of Scottish sandstone (worth about...