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...Golem but Emperor Rudolph (Harry Baur). Half-mad, bullied by his Prime Minister and harried by his mistress (Germaine Aussey), he has a fixation about the Golem, wants it destroyed. Prague's persecuted Jews are equally determined to preserve it. Rabbi Loew is dead but his successor, Rabbi Jacob, knows the formula for bringing the Golem to life, tells it to his wife. The Golem is not disturbed until most of Prague's Jews have been tossed into the lion pit in the Emperor's dungeons. Jacob's wife then whispers the magic words, scratches some...
During the first week Judge Jacob Gitelman sat on Rochester, N. Y.'s City Court bench in 1934, he laid down the rule that every drunken driver was going to jail. Because one truck driver pleaded that a straight jail sentence would cost him his job, thereby taking away support from a wife and six children, Judge Gitelman sentenced the offender to spend six Sundays in the Monroe County Penitentiary. Legality of Judge Gitelman's experiment was questioned, however, because Section 2188 of New York Law says "once a sentence starts it must not be interrupted." To remove...
...that he dispatched a commission to Europe to study co-ops on their native soil. The co-op commission spent more than two months abroad, returning to find that co-operation was being muted for the duration of the Presidential campaign. Meantime the members of the commission, headed by Jacob Baker, assistant WPAdministrator, were unable to agree among themselves on what to report, and the New Deal apparently lost interest. Belatedly last week the Commission sent its findings to President Roosevelt in the form of a 414-page volume with a supplementary 317-page volume of appendices which he unquestionably...
...Resolved: That the sit-down strike should be reorganized as a legitimate bargaining agency for labor," will be the subject when the Yardling team meets Boston Latin School tomorrow in Boston. Garfield H. Horn, Louis Hariz, and Jacob J. Kaplan will speak for the Crimson team...
...Died. Jacob A. Brugh, 84, impoverished grandfather of Cinemactor Arlington Brugh (Robert Taylor); of old age; in Beatrice...