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...spite of all, the CDU seems able to claim considerable strength in the Russian zone. CDU leaders, like capable, sincere Chairman Jacob Kaiser, seriously considered boycotting the elections, but finally decided to participate. Their reason in effect was: if we don't participate, it means virtual dissolution of the party. But the Russians probably would continue the party artificially as a stage decoration with weak leaders who would bow to the Russians. On the other hand, our participation may attract the rest of Germany's and the world's attention to the situation in the Russian zone...
...John Jacob Astor III, 34, plum-shaped posthumous son of the Colonel* and half-brother of Vincent, was having a time with the Manhattan newspapers. They were breaking out all over with photos of a symmetrical 18-year-old girl in suburban Philadelphia, and stuff about her heartbreak. The girl, Virginia Jacobs, called him "Jackims." He was supposed to have had her on the qui vive since she was 15, but now she could not find him. She said he had talked of marrying her and "going to Paris, where we'd have lots of children" -that...
...services with local coverage . . . and independent services for television and overseas. . . . A monopoly . . . can indulge in all the slogans of 'free controversy' and the rest. The fact remains that not a sound can issue from its transmitters without its leave. . . . The voice is always the voice of Jacob...
...fill Hillman's job as president of the Amalgamated, the clothing workers chose another old Hillman follower: secretary-treasurer Jacob S. Potofsky. His greying spade beard gives him the appearance of an elegant professor. He is a devout conservative and a hardheaded labor businessman...
...rebuilding the agency fell in 1921 to a dynamic, Polish-born Old Bolshevik named Jacob Doletsky. Doletsky worked out news-exchange deals with A.P Boss Kent Cooper and U.P. President Karl Bickel. (A.P. and U.P. give Tass their own U.S. news reports in return for Tass coverage of Russia...