Word: jacobe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General" Jacob Sechler Coxey, who with the remains of his army of unemployed and unshaven men was arrested for walking on the Capitol lawn in 1894, was nominated last week for President of the U. S. by the Interracial Independent Political Party. He is a Nordic. His running mate (candidate for Vice President) is a Negro: Simon P. W. Drew, president of the National Ministers' Alliance, pastor of the Cosmopolitan Baptist Institutional Church, president of a real estate company...
...draft-Coolidge"; President Roosevelt's daughter Alice (wife of Speaker Nicholas Long-worth), to watch; and the late Speaker Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon's daughter, Miss Helen Cannon of Danville, 111., "to be very quiet." Miss Cannon arrived early, to be the guest of Mrs. Jacob L. Loose (Loose-Wiles Biscuit...
...teeth are like the Ten Commandments-all of them broken." For once, an all star company seemed as good as the sum of its parts and the play creaked seldom as it rolled rapidly across the stage. Among the stars were: Frances Starr, 42, Cecilia Loftus, 51, Jacob Ben-Ami, 38, Rollo Peters, 45, Helen Gahagan, 27, Georgette Cohan...
Patrick J. Farrell of Vermont and the District of Columbia, to succeed John Jacob Esch on the Interstate Commerce Commission. President Coolidge had tried to keep Mr. Esch, but the Senate repeatedly refused to believe that Mr. Esch had not overinterpreted the Commission's function and power. Mr. Farrell, Canadian-born, had been retained as counsel for 27 years by the I. C. C., latterly as chief counsel. He is a Democrat, but party is supposed to be forgotten...
...days before John Jacob Raskob, chairman of General Motors' finance committee, returned to Manhattan from a five weeks' vacation* abroad, the company declared its regular quarterly dividend of $1.25 and an extra of $2-$56,550,000 altogether...