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...eleven Republican convention delegates elected in North Dakota's primary last week (see p. 16j, were Hooverites. The eleventh was independent. President Hoover was not a candidate in the Republican preference voting where Dr. Joseph Irwin France beat "General" Jacob S. Coxey three-to-two in a notably light ballot. Since he did not win a single convention delegate. Dr. France's victory was meaningless...
Further notice that the 1932 season was about to start was provided by a long-anticipated ceremony in St. Petersburg, Fla. Colonel Jacob Ruppert, near-beer-brewing owner of the New York Yankees, conferred with his most celebrated employe, George Herman ("Babe") Ruth. After much palaver and publicity, Ruth signed a one-year contract for $75,000. Then he tossed a half-dollar into an imitation Spanish wishing well and went to play in a practice game against the Boston Braves, in which he failed to make...
...Reading, Pa., Jacob Rheinheimer, 77, cobbler, died after an operation in which the surgeon found Jacob Rheinheimer's stomach studded with 200 cobbler's brads...
...series "Meister der Graphik", is devoted to Burgkmair's woodcuts. The 96 illustrations have been chosen to trace the development of the artist from his early manner, still largely bound by tradition, to the complete independence and command of style shown in such works as the portraits of Jacob Fugger and Pope Julius II, and in the several series of woodcuts commissioned by the Emperer. A chronological catalogue, and a concordance supplying references to previous important works on Burgkmair, give the book especial value for students of this period; while the textual introduction, an appraisal of Burgkmair's importance, both...
...Irrepressible Secretary Hurley last week clashed with Democratic John Jacob Raskob. Declared Mr. Raskob in New York: "I have good information that President Hoover will run on a Prohibition referendum platform if his party should adopt such a platform." Retorted Mr. Hurley: "Mr. Raskob is in a position to speak much more accurately of the amount of money he and his associates have spent slandering and misrepresenting the President than he is of the President's views on the 18th Amendment. . . . I'm not speaking for the President and I don't think anyone else...