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...appointment of Dr. Jacob Pieter Den Hartog and Mr. Arthur Casagrande as lecturers in the Harvard Engineering School was announced yesterday by H. E. Clifford, dean of the School. Dr. Den Hartog, a graduate of the Technical University at Delft, Holland, will conduct courses in Kinetics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1920, and has been affiliated with the Research Laboratory of the Westinghouse Electric Company since 1925. Before coming to Harvard he has lectured at the universities of Pittsburgh and Michigan and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...best friend Albert ("AB") Walker are awaiting trial. "R. J." Jr. read the coroner's inquest testimony, then announced: "In view of all the facts available at this time, I believe my brother's death was murder." A New York Sun newsman asked heavy-jowled Col. Jacob Ruppert, brewer and owner of the New York Yankees (see p. 20), if winning baseball championships had given him his biggest thrills in life. Replied the Colonel: "Yes and no. . . . Looking back now I doubt if I ever felt more elated than when I was a youngster and on occasions would...
Early in 1929 John Jacob Raskob, to revive the defeat-shattered Democracy, put Mr. Shouse in charge of the party's Washington headquarters. For three years Democrat Shouse directed an effective drumfire of criticism upon the Republican administration. He, more than any oilier individual, was responsible for the fact that the House went Democratic after the 1930 election. G. O. Partisans blamed him for what they called the ''Smear Hoover" campaign. A Raskobite, he was eclipsed by the rise of the Roosevelt candidacy, denied the permanent chairmanship of the Chicago convention (TIME, July 4 & n). Politically jobless...
...South; the rural radical wing of the Northwest; the free, harum-scarum wing of the Southwest. Governor Roosevelt, nominated by a heterogeneous combination of the last three, crushed the first wing, left it bleeding and broken. The Brown Derby is still licking its wounds in sullen silence. John Jacob Raskob, who kept the party alive through four lean years, has been unceremoniously exiled. Regardless of Mayor Walker's fate, Tammany can expect nothing from a President Roosevelt. Good Democrats like Bernard Mannes Baruch have been ignored. They feel that the presidential nominee has taken from them without so much...
...light your cigar on a star up here," cried Alfred Emanuel Smith, proud because he was showing off his building to Jean Cardinal Verdier, Archbishop of Paris. Then, during luncheon with John Jacob Raskob, Editor Michael Williams of The Commonweal, Jeweler Pierre C. Cartier, President John S. Burke of B. Altman & Co., Banker Robert Louis Hoguet and others, Cardinal Verdier admired the view...