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...Kerr canning-jar people, Jacob's tithing vow is more than a wall motto. It is a way of doing business: every time Kerr makes a dollar, God gets a dime...
...Durban last week, white South Africans were privileged to view one of the ugliest representations of man man ever wrought-Sculptor Jacob Epstein's primeval Adam. In accordance with the Nationalist government's policy of apartheid (segregation), Indians and Negroes were barred from the exhibit. Roared big-fisted Sculptor Epstein in London: "The Adam was intended to represent the beginnings of all men . . . Under such Nazi principles of racial selectivity the subject of the statue himself would not be allowed to have a look...
...organizing drive by the Amalgamated, that probably wouldn't be very many or for very long. The Amalgamated has a membership of 375,000, a treasury of $6,000,000, and a hustling set of hard-nosed organizers. For the Amalgamated's president, spade-bearded Jacob Potofsky, Russian-born but no Communist, an elegant old warhorse of trade unionism, it was a fine opportunity. An estimated 6,000,000 store workers in the U.S. are still unorganized...
...other two boys ran through a crowd of 25 passers-by who made no effort to stop them despite Jacob's cries of "Thief, thief." Patrolman Brutti, however, succeeded in getting their names from his young captive...
Secrets In the City. The sons of a Syracuse peddler, 73-year-old Lee and 68-year-old Jacob J. (for nothing) Shubert were already stage-struck in 1885 when an older brother, Sam, got a job as an extra with a visiting road company at $1 a week. When they found that program boys got $1.50 a week, the three brothers switched to the commercial side, and in a few years were leasing theaters-and putting on shows-in Rochester, Albany, Troy, Utica and Buffalo as well as Syracuse...