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...Providence, R. I. court, Socialite Francis Ormond French, onetime Boston insurance agent, who last year embarrassed his son-in-law John Jacob Astor 3rd by writing about his life in society, filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy. Among the creditors listed were Empire Trust Co. ($2,875), Dr. Callahan, of Bull Street, Newport ($10), Newport One-Price Clothing Co. ($6.35), Good Will Cleansers ($6.20), Wing Lee, laundryman ($1.48), Western Union Telegraph Co. (38?). In 1923, when broke, Socialite French took an unsuccessful flyer at driving a taxicab...
...Years. Nearly 4,000 B.C. is the legendary time when the Tribe of Jacob set themselves up in Palestine, and it was not until 633 A.D. that Palestine was ever conquered by the Arabs. During its 6,000 years of history, however, Palestine has been conquered and reconquered innumerable times, notably by the Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, Byzantines, European Crusaders, the Turks and even briefly by Mongolian invaders. As long ago as 1700 B.C. conquered Israelites had to quit Palestine for Egypt, as they have indulged in innumerable migrations since, but love of Palestine has remained in the fibre...
...series of "Trotskyist" executions. For this major news correspondents still had to comb copies of local Soviet newsorgans as these reached the capital. Neither in Moscow nor in any other office of the world-wide Soviet official news agency Tass could information be had about the Director of Tass, Jacob Doletsky. who so far as his Moscow journalist friends knew "simply disappeared" two months ago. In 1934 at the high point of his international journalistic career Doletsky signed up Tass with the Associated Press and the United Press in an exchange news arrangement, was feted in Manhattan. Last week...
Died. Colonel Jacob Schick, 59, inventor of the Schick Dry Shaver; of a kidney ailment; in Manhattan. It was his theory that by losing awareness of time he could live to be 120. Born in Ottumwa, Iowa, he went to work in a copper mine in his early childhood, became an Alaska prospector at 20; enlisted in the U.S. Army for the War with Spain; in the World War supervised transport of troops through England. An inveterate inventor of boats, machines, engineering methods, he speeded up gas mask production by a device enabling one girl to fill 20 masks...
...Jacob Baur died in 1912, left his 55% interest to his wife and daughter. In 1926 they realized $3,000,000 by selling out to a banking group. President then and chairman now is a blue-eyed, bulb-nosed Iowa Scot named Walter Kenneth Mclntosh who has been in the company since 1902. Married but childless, he commutes from suburban Oak Park, draws a salary of $27,000. '"Liquid" employes call him "Mr. Mac." Under Mr. Mac, "Liquid" came through Depression with flying colors, lost money only in 1932. In 1930, it made $1,786,000 on sales...