Word: jacobe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jacob Gould Schurman, U. S. Ambassador to Germany, to pay respects...
...achievements in 1927. Two non-Jews had the honor of being included-Dr. George Foot Moore of Harvard for his book Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era, and John Davison Rockefeller Jr. for his gifts to Jewish causes. Jews & Jewesses saluted included: Sculptors Jo Davidson, Jacob Epstein, Max Kalisch; Aviation Promoters Daniel Guggenheim, Harry F. Guggenheim, Charles A. Levine; Benchers & Barristers Benjamin N. Cardozo, Arthur Garfield Hays Carolyn Fromberg Loeb, Joseph N. Proskauer, Samuel Untermyer; Civic Benefactors Albert M. Greenfield (Philadelphia), Albert S. Lavenson (Oakland, Calif.), Abraham C. Ratshesky (Boston), Mortimer L. Schiff (New York), Moses Schoenberg...
...rooms of the Ferargil Galleries, Manhattan, stood 44 of the sculptures of Jacob Epstein...
...Jacob Epstein lounged about the gallery with an aggressive nervousness while such people peered at his bronze sculpture. His face, abnormal, fierce, flatulent, was twisted into expressions of politeness when people were introduced to him. His oversized hands and heavy feet, his awkward body bulging in its loose shrouds, made him look very much out of place among all those lovers of art. But Sculptor Epstein did not appear disconcerted. Had the history of his career flashed through his mind, he would have recalled how he had left America in 1902, how for three years he had studied in Paris...
...death, in 1918, he spoke again: " 'Twasn't the money we were after; 'twas the power. We were all playing for power. It was a great, game." And most of his potent play-fellows in that game-among them John D. Rockefeller, Edward H. Harriman, Jacob Schiff-liked him sincerely, warmly...