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...After a mass in Sioux City, Iowa's cathedral, collectors found that a stranger in the congregation had put a $50 bill in the collection box. They decided it was a mistake, offered to return it. Said the stranger: "That was no mistake." Attendants learned he was John Jacob Raskob, onetime chairman of General Motors finance committee. In the Hollywood Bowl Sir Herbert Hamilton Harty was conducting the orchestra while a young woman rehearsed a 'cello solo. When the orchestra finished playing, her father stepped up to the podium, punched Conductor Harty exclaimed : "The orchestra played so loud...
...well-born Jewess who had been studying nursing and medicine, first visited the squalid East Side and saw a sick woman lying neglected in a stinkhole, she resolved to do something about it. With a friend she moved into the slums. Two years later, in 1895, the late Jacob Schiff was so impressed with Miss Wald's work that he bought her No. 265, a fine house built in the days when Henry Street was fashionable. Miss Wald founded clubs, classes in arts & crafts, English, citizenship. Long before "recreation centres" were known she put swings in the back yard...
...Colonel Jacob Ruppert, prizefight loving bachelor, owner of Manhattan's most victorious ball club, the New York Yankees, did not in the beginning of the Depression have the big, profitable, post-Prohibition brewing business that he has today. Yet he made a bold decision. He announced that he would back his faith in Manhattan real estate by buying any properties that appealed to him. Last week the Colonel bought the 23-story Hoagland Building on Madison Avenue at 40th Street, and Manhattan did not accuse him of being late in fulfilling his promise. Rather, Manhattan noted that...
...sooner had he spoken than in Brooklyn occurred a good example of how kidnappers can be caught by prompt action. Three men had tried to extort $10,000 from Dr. Jacob Wachsman. Dr. Wachsman happens to be honorary physician of the New York Detectives' Association. He telephoned his detective friends and they promptly threw a network of espionage around him. A detective was his chauffeur. Detectives with fake ailments haunted his waiting room. When the extortionists finally named the location for the payment, the place bristled with sleuths selling oranges, taking stock in grocery stores, sweeping sidewalks in janitors...
...church people." Superfilm from National Diversified was to be called Mary, The Virgin. The company did produce two cinemas featuring Eddie Dowling, good Catholic comedian, before going into bankruptcy in 1930. The Government then brought mail fraud charges. What prolonged the trial was the thoroughness of its Federal prosecutor, Jacob J. Rosenblum. The defense introduced 30 wit nesses, the prosecution 68. It took two clerks to keep the 941 exhibits straight. After three months one of the two alter nate jurors died...