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Hamtramck, Mich., a city of 50,000 surrounded by Detroit, found its chief executive in difficulty last week. Mayor Rudolph G. Tenerowicz and twelve others -including two named Jacob ("Yosher") Kaplan and Isaac ("Forty Grand Ike") Levey-were indicted for bribery...
...revealed a vast tangle of suspicious irregularities. After two months eight officers of the bank were indicted for willful misappropriation of funds. Five were ordered to trial: President Bernard K. Marcus, son of the institution's founder; Russian-born Chairman of the Executive Committee Saul Singer; Counsel Isidor Jacob Kresel, one-time prosecutor of the city's police and judiciary investigation; Herbert Singer, 24-year-old son of Saul, law clerk in Counsel Kresel's office; Henry W. Pollock, executive vice president in charge of the bank's law department...
Republicans and Democrats fell to haggling again last week over national political finances. In reporting their current position, the Democrats revealed that they were still $707,054 in the red, of which $295,250 came from Chairman John Jacob Raskob. During the last three months Mr. Raskob has increased his party's debt to him by $40,000. These figures caused the Republican National Committee to remark through the convenient mouth of West Virginia's Senator Hatfield: "Mr. Raskob is steadily increasing the size of the mortgage which he holds on the once proud party of Jefferson...
...Jacob Gould Schurman, longtime (1892-1920) president of Cornell, one-time (1925-29) Ambassador to Germany, turned over the new $500,000 University Hall to the University of Heidelberg, where he was once a student. The building, for which Mr. Schurman collected the money, is made of white stone, stands at one side of University Platz, contains an elaborate "senate" room. It is the gift of 37 Americans in recognition of "Heidelberg's helpful service to our culture, science and civilization." Donors whose names were inscribed in a marble tablet included: John Davison Rockefeller Jr., James Speyer, Paul Moritz Warburg...
...first prize for exhibits, a gold medal, went neither to the biggest, nor the neatest, nor the cleverest, nor the most learned presentation. Jacob Furth, an immunologist at the Henry Phipps Institute of the University of Pennsylvania, a onetime worker at the Rockefeller Institute, won the gold medal for his demonstration of experimental leucemia. Leucemia is a blood disease closely resembling cancer. The blood contains abnormally vast numbers of white blood cells. Usually the spleen and liver are hugely enlarged. Bone marrow is usually affected. Dr. Furth isolated a virus from leucemic chickens. The virus stimulated leucemia in other chickens...