Word: jacobe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Astor family were not seamen historically. Less than 100 years ago John Jacob Astor, first of the clan to stamp his name upon U. S., was still selling furs and dealing in Manhattan real estate with such finesse as to rear an historic fortune. He begat William Backhouse Astor, called "Landlord of New York." who begat John Jacob Astor, who begat John Jacob Astor, who begat William Vincent Astor...
John Gay's autograph appears on the fly leaf of Dryden's 'Annus Mirabilis' of 1667, and of a 1662 Elzovir edition of Pierre Charron's 'De La-Sagesse.' It is also signed to the manuscript assignment to Jacob Tonson and John Watts of his rights as author of the 'Fables' and the 'Beggar's Opera,' dated February 6, 1727. The poet's signature is not easy to find, but infinitely scarcer is that of 'L. Bolton' the Duchess of Bolton who was once Lavinia Fenton, the creator of the part of Polly in the 'Begger's Opera...
...Supreme Court's to render decisions and build up a body of law almost as fundamental as Supreme Court precedent, is composed mostly of lawyers who have gained reputations for patience and probity. They are not "distinguished" men, as distinction goes, but they are able and honorable. Commissioner John Jacob Esch of La Crosse, Wis., chairman of the Commission last year, served in the U. S. House of Representatives for 21 years before his work with Senator Albert Baird Cummins of Iowa on the Transportation Act of 1920 brought him wide notice. His elevation to the Commission followed...
Round was the tribute, and warranted. John Jacob Abel, 70, has added many a stone to the house of human knowledge. His special field has been pharmacology, a branch that he has taught at Johns Hopkins since 1893. His researches led to the discovery and synthetic production of Adrenalin, drug that has a startling therapeutic action on the heart muscles.* It can often cause stopped hearts to beat. Only last year he succeeded in preparing insulin in crystalline form. His crystals seem to be the hormone necessary to maintain normal sugar balance in the body and to prevent diabetes...
Heidelberg University-known to theatre-goers as the scene of The Student Prince, known to the learned world as the oldest of famed German universities-will receive $400,000 from the U. S. Aroused by the university's needs, U. S. Ambassador to Germany Jacob Gould Schurman, once a Heidelberg student, last week undertook to raise the fund. Founded in 1385, surrounded by wooded hills on which the ruins of Heidelberg Castle in the state of Baden still stand, Heidelberg finds that antiquity and a picturesque setting cannot provide for material needs. The main building is cluttered with debris...