Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California. Shrewd General Ashley, "the John Jacob Astor of St. Louis," thought he knew a good man when he saw one; but even he did not realize that he had assembled "the most significant group of continental explorers ever brought together." The man who became the group's most outstanding graduate was a 24-year-old New Yorker named Jedediah Strong Smith, an ex-clerk on a Great Lakes freighter who had come to town in time to spot Ashley's ad. Three years later, when beaver-rich General Ashley retired from the field and sold his interests...
...Jacob C. Levenson, tutor in History and Literature, stated, "I am terribly sorry that one of the outstanding men in the community has died. His loss is a terrible one in both our intellectual and moral lives...
Apparently disregarding a warning block signal, apparently blind to the glare of No. lys's approaching headlight, Motorman Jacob Kiefer took No. 192 down the section of double track and roared on into the gantlet. Markin's whistle was a shrill and hopeless warning of the rending crash of steel on steel as the two trains collided...
...Commission began its investigation. Both motormen, who had been riding in their cubicles on the comparatively intact right sides of the two cars, had survived. Markin had only minor injuries. Kiefer, apparently thrown clear, was suffering from severe shock. A veteran engineman of 26 years service, 55-year-old Jacob Kiefer was arrested and charged with criminal negligence...
...year-old Maurice Travis, boss of the militant Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, who lost an eye and several teeth last year as the result of a labor brawl.† In the smoke-filled auditorium of the C.I.O. Steelworkers Washington headquarters, the Clothing Workers' spade-bearded Jacob Potofsky read the indictment, which was also a good case history of how the Communists controlled some U.S. labor unions. Said the Potofsky indictment...