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Chosen to be director of this administrative board was John Jacob (Jack) Kroll, plodding vice president of Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers, assistant chairman of Hillman's P.A.C. Hillman's trouble shooter and Hillman's old and loyal friend. Other members were the secretary-treasurers of four of C.I.O.'s biggest unions: the steel Workers' David J. McDonald and the textile workers' William Pollock, who stand to the right of the political center; the auto workers' George Addes, whom U.A.W.'s Communist groups have long supported; the Communist-influenced electrical workers...
Reflex. In Manhattan, when detectives tracking down two hotel robbers approached Jacob Strouse, standing in an alley, he tried to jump a 6-ft. fence, broke his leg. The detectives later found he had nothing to do with the holdup...
This week the Army & Navy announced that they had set up a joint scientific research committee to coordinate their research. Its chairman: Vannevar Bush. Other members are Generals Jacob Devers and Carl Spaatz, Assistant Navy Secretary W. John Kenny, Admiral DeWitt Ramsey...
...Toole's announcement came as a quick counter-punch to Jacob's statement that O'Toole was trying to stir up an investigation of the Louis-Conn farce because O'Toole's office allegedly had asked Mike for complimentary tickets to the fight and had been refused...
...Emil Jacob Schneider...