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...surprise to the industry. Of Bull Durant legends abound. It is said that he persuaded G. M. directors to vote $100,000 for research on a refrigerator "just so they'd have more to worry about." It was he who, through John Jacob Raskob, then secretary to Pierre Samuel du Pont, interested the "Wilmington crowd" in G. M. He is one of the Federal Reserve's oldest, loudest, fiercest foes. He claims to have visited President Hoover a year ago last spring and warned him of impending crisis in the securities' markets. In 1909 he arranged to buy Ford Motor...
...Patsy, 12-metre sloop sailed by Tycoon John Jacob Raskob: a race in the Chester River Yacht Club regatta off Baltimore. Second was John J. Raskob Jr. in a 10-metre boat...
...Manhattan, four small boys-John Kozinsky, Evans Colderia, Jacob Torba and William Torba-decided to go fishing in Central Park, looked about for hooks, lines, sinkers. Shortly after their decision, numbers in two telephone exchanges could not be reached, warning lights flashed on the alarm board of the Holmes Electric Patrol, police were summoned to find the source of the trouble. Source: Fishermen Kozinsky, Colderia, Torba and Torba had discovered and sawed off 15 ft. of exposed telephone trunk line cable for their sport. In Newark, N. J., Pasquale Bellott, n, James Dowd, n, and Pasquale Lordi, 13, wired...
Manhattan's Broadway knows the Shubert Brothers, Lee and Jacob J. ("Jake") as producers who make a lot of money. They pick successful shows and mount them adequately but without extravagance. They pay their chorus girls less than other producers and work them harder. When they permit themselves an artistic experiment they do it less in jealousy of the laurels of literary-minded competitors than with a shrewd eye for cash profits. Last week the Shuberts said that they were going into the cinema business. Instead of paying royalties to U. S. patent holders they had bought a talking...
...Woodbine, N. J., Justice Jacob S. Levin fined Leon Smith, 20, $10 and costs for taking Margaret Chambers to a cinema without her parents' consent. Soon Justice Levin received the following note from an anonymous, irate New Yorker: "I am going to be in Woodbine next week and if I catch sight of you I'm going to blow you to pulp for fining that young fellow for taking out that girl...