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...Chicago's Democratic Boss Jacob Arvey: TIME has it Jack Arvey. Nearly everybody else has it Jake Arvey? Which is it? Yours, for suppression of him, whichever...
...Sign of the Angel. When Friedrich Jacob Merck took over a pharmacy called the Engelapotheke ("Angel Drugstore") in the Hessian town of Darmstadt 284 years ago, chemistry was just emerging from the shadows of alchemy. In 1827, the Merck firm started manufacturing; in the next 40 years it achieved the first commercial production of morphine, codeine and cocaine. By 1891 the company was selling so many of its products in North America that a son of the house, 24-year-old George Merck, was sent over to take a closer look at the market...
...third World Conference of Friends, held last week in Oxford, England, U.S. Quakers apologized to their foreign brethren for possessing so large a share of the divine bounty. Friend Philip E. Jacob of Swarthmore, Pa. asked the conference to express "a sense of shame at the concentration of power and wealth in America...
...Administration itself knows and admires the arts of compromise. It has been highly tolerant of such Southern opposition as Sparkman's. In 1950 the State Department selected Sparkman as one of five U.S. delegates to the U.N. General Assembly. From Andrei Vishinsky and Jacob Malik he learned something a good deal more Arctic than anything in Speaker Bankhead's zephyrus philosophy. "For the first time," said Sparkman, "I found men who were not amenable to any reason or compromise...
Politics: When he returned to his Chicago law practice in 1947, Illinois Democrats picked him to run against Dwight Green, who seemed sure of reelection. Jacob ("Jack") M. Arvey, Cook County Democratic chairman, accepted Stevenson, whom he had met only a few months before, as the sacrificial lamb. Stevenson swept into office over Green by the biggest margin any candidate ever piled up in Illinois (572,000 votes), while Harry Truman won the state by a slim 33,612. As governor, Stevenson sent state police out to stop commercial gambling downstate when local officials failed to act, lopped...