Word: jacobe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Abrahamson '30, R. E. Barrett, Jr. '30, W. E. Billings '31, G. E. Carlson '30, C. H. Curtis '30, F. L. Dahney '30, A. L. Durkee '30, D. B. Edmonston '32, S. S. Ganick '30, Jacob Ginsburg '30, A. R. Goodman '32, Nathan Gordon '30, C. R. Graff '32, C. D. Harrington '32, J. J. Jessel '31, H. M. Jones '30, J. M. Keller '32, J. W. Kukas '30, B. I. Lachno '32, F. J. Mardulier '30, C. N. Mason, Jr. '32, M. B. Nunlist '30, B. R. Painter '30, R. B. Pierce '30, G. A. Reed...
...institution called the Lincoln Scholarship Fund. This Fund started functioning last week in Manhattan. Its campaign: to raise $1,120,000 to lend as tuition fees to "anyone, regardless of age, race, color or creed who can furnish proof of need and sincerity of purpose." Its founder: Jacob J. Vandever, onetime (1922) President of the New York Rotary Club, and active philanthropist who likes to dress up as "Father Knickerbocker" each year for the outing of the Broadway Association, booster organization. Associated with Founder Vandever on a national advisory committee are such varied figures as the Hon. Theodore Gilmore Bilbo...
...Frederick. Since the Morrows were known to be interested in a number of food products, Wall Street began to talk of a new food products combination, perhaps rivaling the recent Morgan merger (Standard Brands). Last week, confirming that guess, four companies ? Toddy Corp. (chocolate malted milk), Edward H. Jacob (canned mushrooms), Kitchen Bouquet (liquid flavoring extracts), Fould Milling (macaroni) ? united in Grocery Store Products Inc., and the name of George Kenan Morrow again figured prominently on the board of directors...
...maxim used to be that a stock should sell, other things being equal, for about ten times earnings. The maxim now says "15 times earnings." This is known as Raskob's Rule, because one day in March 1928, John Jacob Raskob, then finance director of General Motors, walked up a gangplank on his way to Europe and remarked that 15-times was a proper modern ratio-that General Motors ought to have been selling at that time...
Enter Raskob. John Jacob Raskob, quiescent financially since he left General Motors to manage the Smith campaign for President, has bought a large stock interest in Aero Supply Manufacturing Co., Inc., called the "oldest aviation accessory enterprise in the country." Aero Supply owns Standard Automatic Products Co. of Corry, Pa., and National Steel Products Co. of Ohio. Rumored: a big Raskob-headed air corporation...