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...Ukrainian-born Philip Jacob Jaffe, 48, wealthy Manhattan greeting-card manufacturer, who, along with Miss Mitchell, edited and published a little magazine called Amerasia, devoted to plugging the Chinese (Yenan) Communists and criticizing the Chiang policies which the U.S. State Department supported...
People had always liked Louise Peete. In 1919 her soothing manner had attracted a wealthy old Los Angeles oilman named Jacob C. Denton. She leased his house, and agreed to let him stay on in it. Soon she was using his car, paying his bills, handling his business with bankers. On the night of June 1, 1920, after months of happy companionship, Jake Denton disappeared. Weeping, Louise Peete helped police in a fruitless hunt for clues. Then she sadly sublet his house and went to Denver, where, she said, her second husband, one Richard Peete, was divorcing...
Joseph Stalin had good news of one son, bad news about another: Guards Colonel Vassily Josefovich Stalin won the Order of Suvorov, second class; Jacob Djugashvili, son by a first marriage, was reported (by Paul Ghali of the Chicago Daily News) to have committed suicide in 1943 in the Nazi Oranienburg prison camp...
...tale has been told and retold in a score of tongues. His name, his cunning, and the basis of some of his adventures are discernible in Aesop's fables and in the Hindu myths from which those fables came. In the 19th Century, philologist and fairytale-teller Jacob Grimm republished the story with all the gusty lustiness of earlier tellings; in a politer version Goethe made an epic poem of it. No less than 27 episodes of Le Roman de Renard were penned in medieval France. The last of these formed the basis of the Flemish-Dutch poem from...
...Chamber's Clark Haynes Minor confined himself to a plea for the pacts (i.e. for lowered tariffs), because they have been "beneficial to the U.S." The C.I.O.'s bearded Jacob S. Potofsky, secretary-treasurer of Amalgamated Clothing Workers, stole the show with his eloquent argument. Said...