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When a group including Isidor Straus (R. H. Macy & Co.) and Jacob Henry Schiff (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.) set up the Alliance in 1893, the main purpose was to Americanize the immigrant stream inundating New York City. In 1924 the Johnson Act dammed the stream and today the Americanization job is largely done. The worst slums have gone...
...John Jacob Astor, assisted by his chauffeur, whisked a piglet to a swank Manhattan pet hospital from the Astor farm in Basking Ridge, N.J. Hospital authorities soon told the press that the patient, Silvia by name, was improving. Her trouble: undernourishment (probably as a member of too large a litter...
...told Prosecutor Hassell Biblical stories about Abraham, who took a "handmaiden," and Jacob, who worked seven years for Rachel, was tricked into marrying her sister Leah, then had to work seven more years for Rachel-making two wives. "Do you [think] the Bible is sexually as stimulating as Esquire?" bristled Hassell. "Certainly not," replied...
...Harry Fisher gets away from his desk at the Jacob Ruppert Brewery enough afternoons to keep his weight within five pounds of Williams days. Tennis and business golf are his main methods. "I'm no good at bowling," he says, although a lot of bowlers would be pleased to average 200 as he does. The only sport at which he is really poor is swimming...
Charles S. Jennings, copy editor, Chicago Daily News; Robert Lasseter, editor, Rutherford Courier, Murfressboro, Tenn.; Fred W. Maguire, editor, Lowell (Mass.) "Sunday Telegram; Jacob S. Qualey, copy editor, Minneapolis Star Journal; John W. Shivley, real estate and industrial editor, Kansas City Star...