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...Germans had just about all their chips on the table. But the Allies still had cash in their pockets; their impressive reserves had not yet been committed. North of Bradley, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery had thrown in only part of his armies. To the south, Lieut. General Jacob Devers, who had reserves, too, had slashed into the Germans' soft left flank in the Vosges (see below). In his own area, Omar Bradley's Twelfth Army Group pounded grimly and powerfully at the defenses of the Germans...
Seeking to avenge a double defeat suffered by the Council at the hands of Tufts last Wednesday will be Edwin J. Jacob '47 and W. Brewster Kopp '47, who will argue the affirmative case in this question. Judges for the debate will include Wallace E. Davies, Teaching Fellow in History, Max Gaebler, and Charles M. Hardin, instructor in Government...
...before an Army general court-martial. He was found guilty, as an Army contract officer, of conspiring to defraud the U.S. of $200,000 on Army contracts, sentenced to three years at hard labor, a $12,000 fine and dismissal from the service. Said one of his associates along "Jacob's Beach," hoary Manhattan rendezvous for the pugilistic trade: "He never should of done it during...
Twain and Pigeon. Tesla's experiments, few of them ever finished, were financed by such backers as J. Pierpont Morgan, John Jacob Astor, John Hays Hammond, Thomas Fortune Ryan, Samuel Insull. During the last 20 years of his life, Tesla holed up in a Manhattan hotel room, dreaming of bigger & bigger projects. Before his death last year at 86, he had announced that he was on the verge of: 1) inventing a death ray, 2) communicating with other planets...
...same time, John Rowe, NROTC, and Edwin Jacob '47 will argue the affirmative position in the same question in a debate at Tufts...