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...President Roosevelt filled the Federal Reserve Board with the appointments of John Jacob Thomas, Nebraska farmer-lawyer, and Menc S. Szymczak, Comptroller of Chicago, good friend of the late martyred Mayor Tony Cermak. Other Presidential nominations: Maryland's William Stanley to be Assistant to the Attorney General; Utah's Harold M. Stephen, Florida's Frank J. Wideman to be Assistant Attorneys General; Tennessee's John Harcourt Alexander Morgan* and Wisconsin's David E. Lilienthal to be Tennessee Valley Authority directors; Pennsylvania's Carroll Miller, brother-in-law of Demo-cratic Boss "Joe" Guffey...
...marriage of convenience and an opportunity to indulge in luxury. . . . The wife liked excitement, social affairs and a good time, and no blame is attached to her for that, because at her age such things are to be expected." Separated. Madeleine Force Astor Dick, widow of John Jacob Astor who was drowned on the Titanic; and William K. Dick, sugar tycoon...
...Nebraska, Hartwick College (Oneonta, N. Y.) and the College of the City of New York. Because the last is a taxpayers' institution, any "Red" result would have been "extremely impolitic." C. C. N. Y. has enough troubles anyway. Last week a C. C. N. Y. student named Jacob Itzkowitz appeared before a Brooklyn justice named Charles E. Russell. He wished to reassume the name Bakur which his grandfather had given up to avoid military service.† Justice Russell sternly denied Jacob Itzkowitz's application, launched a brisk denunciation of C. C. N. Y. as a place where...
Heidelberg's "University Hall," classroom building, was built by former U. S. students at the University, dedicated by onetime U. S. Ambassador Jacob Gould Schurman in 1931. Its tablet, containing many a Jewish name, still stands. Moreover, foreign students, even Jewish ones, are still admissible at Heidelberg since they "cannot enter the German labor market...
...meal at the formal dinner given in their honor at the University of Iowa. Harry Breene, Iowa City's newly elected Republican Mayor, a onetime railroad ticket agent, slipped, sprawled headlong into a fountain. He crawled out spluttering. shook water on nearby guests, fled in confusion. Nonplussed, Jacob Van der Zee. Iowa's Rhodes Scholarship committeeman, ordered the banquet to proceed. Local newspapers loyally suppressed their best story in years...