Word: jacobe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Considerably annoyed by the Senate's transparently political refusal to confirm his reappointment of John Jacob Esch to the Interstate Commerce Commission,President Coolidge made no haste to select a substitute for Mr. Esch. Reports got about that the President's annoyance had carried him so far that he would override the Senate's vote and give Mr. Esch a recess appointment. Experts pondered the legality of such a move. The I. C. C., perhaps at the President's suggestion, retained Mr. Esch in a private capacity, to advise with it on unfinished business with which...
...Virgil's sailors. From west to east they called "downhill," from east to west "uphill." Last week a 20-foot whaleback lifeboat with four Dutchmen in it sailed out of the Thames into the Channel. One of the Dutchmen is 70 years old. He, Jacob Schuttvaer, designer of the lifeboat, wants to prove it is unsinkable. His boat has neither wireless nor auxiliary motor. With him are Captain Smith, Helmsman Gelissen, First Officer Robert Kruithof. He expects to get to New York in a month, uphill...
...Government's $140,000,000 wartime power plants at Muscle Shoals, Ala., on the Tennessee River, and ordering the Department of Agriculture to experiment with making cheap nitrate fertilizers there, for sale at cost to farmers. ¶ Rejected by 39 votes to 29 the renomination of John Jacob Esch of Wisconsin to the Interstate Commerce Commission, after hot intersectional debate on his voting in coal-rate cases...
...pour of white light over a green table, begins a run, clicking the cue ball against the two balls he is trying to keep against the cushion. When will he miss? Last week in San Francisco Edouard Horemans of Belgium shot 248 times, then stood aside for Jacob Schacfer to shoot...
Last year and the year before Captain Brown sailed round the world. Every year since he left the trade of the sea he has yachted with his brother Jacob Frederick, reputed world's biggest wool merchant, who flies a Boston Yacht Club flag. Up to his last illness he wrote sea yarns for the Atlantic Monthly, The Bellman. Modest, despite his immense knowledge and creditable learning, he had a quaint way of submitting his salty MSS. to University-bred employees, "just to have a glance over the grammar and syntax...