Word: jacobe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smell of meat and fish often seeps up from below. One day last week a tropical sun blazed through the auditorium's huge uncurtained windows upon some 800 cheering, jostling, excited men and women. The weather made these Virginians uncomfortably hot. Thoughts of Alfred Emanuel Smith and John Jacob Raskob as leaders of the Democratic party made them hotter...
...fire. Soldiers fell. Hastily the French commander flung out a skirmish line, halted the advance. His little patrol was completely ambushed by 3,000 ragged, bearded, fierce-fighting Moors. Firing every inch of the way the French patrol retreated through the pass to the cement blockhouse of Ait Yacoub (Jacob's Hummock). For 48 hours the garrison of 360 French and Senegalese stood off 3,000 yelling bloodthirsty tribesmen owing allegiance to no recognized Sheikh, who had sworn to die rather than submit to French rule. In the ambush and retreat to Ait Yacoub, 13 French were killed...
Married. Charles Jacob Young, son of Owen D. Young, chairman of the late successful Reparations Conference in Paris (see p. 14); and Esther Marie Christensen, Cleveland Junior Leaguer, daughter of Niels Anthon Christensen, Danish vice-consul and airbrake inventor; in Cleveland...
Buffalo, Niagara & Eastern Power Corp.: Schoellkopf property, largest U. S. power system, serving 500 cities and towns including Buffalo. Niagara Falls supplies most of its power. Jacob, Paul and Alfred Schoellkopf are Board Chairman, President and General Manager...
Northeastern Power Corp.: Carlisle property, serving many a community along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence. Chairman is F. L. Carlisle, President is H. E. Machold, New York State Republican leader. Jacob F. Jr. and Paul Schoellkopf are directors...