Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. John Jacob Raskob, 71, tycoon, onetime (1928-32) chairman of the Democratic National Committee; at his home near Centerville, Md. A cigarmaker's son who started out as a stenographer, Raskob arranged the deals that brought E. I. du Pont money into General Motors, became chairman of G.M.'s finance committee and a multimillionaire. An ardent Wet, he plunged into politics in '28 on behalf of his good friend and fellow Catholic Al Smith (until then he was a nominal Republican), wangled fat contributions to the Democratic cause, organized the National Committee publicity bureau that helped...
White-haired Andrei Vishinsky, who had been gossiping amiably with Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, froze in his seat. Then, in a move familiar in U.N. circles, but still a shock at social gatherings, he got up and, followed obediently by the Soviets' Jacob Malik, strode with all available hauteur from the room...
...report, read to the Security Council by U.S. Delegate Warren Austin, specified among other items, "a 7.62-mm. PPSH submachine gun . . ." As he came to this passage in the report, Austin reached behind his chair and dramatically produced a Russian-made gun, labeled 1950 (see cut). Russian Delegate Jacob Malik got up and walked out of the Council Chamber. Later he furiously denounced MacArthur as a "fascist" and Warren Austin's gesture as a provocation designed for simpletons...
...Dean Acheson's wishful point that the Russians might become good boys some day (see above), the Russians were being relatively mellow at U.N.'s General Assembly. Andrei Vishinsky opposed the U.S. plan for widening the powers of the Assembly, but he was less vitriolic than usual. Jacob Malik, the Relentless Rudolph of last month's Security Council sessions, softened to the point of telling one reporter to remember the Russian word nichevo. "It means," explained Malik, " 'don't worry, things will turn out all right...
...Oxford, took to the pages of London's Sunday Graphic to give a vigorous pat on the back to Britain's Chief Representative to the U.N. Sir Gladwyn Jebb, with a sideswipe at one of Sir Gladwyn's chief adversaries, the U.S.S.R.'s Jacob Malik...