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...from a carefully prepared sheet of paper, read Chairman John Jacob Raskob of the Democratic National Committee to a group of astonished newsgatherers. At the disclosure that the Democratic deficit had been almost cut in half in five months, despite the party's crushing defeat, news-trained noses quivered with interest...
McKesson-Robbins-Merrell. Oldest drug house in St. Louis is J. S. Merrell Drug Co., founded in 1845 DY Jacob S. Merrell. Perhaps youngest national drug house is McKesson & Robbins, Inc. (successor to McKesson & Robbins, Inc. of Conn.) formed in 1928 with the merger of 16 drug companies. In March, 1929, McKesson & Robbins, Inc., announced the acquisition of 18 additional companies. Last week J. S. Merrell Drug Co. was sold to McKesson & Robbins, began to operate as a McKesson & Robbins subsidiary. In addition to its U. S. companies, McKesson & Robbins has branches in London, Paris, Montreal, Kobe, Shanghai, Hankow...
...occasion of Sir James's effort last week was a banquet-benefit staged for the Newspaper Press Fund. Major the Hon. John Jacob Astor, M.P., presided. Present was Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin who, as everyone knows, is addicted to detective fiction...
...Ensemble owes its organization to Jacob Moskovitz '30, who is at present its manager. A very capable oboe player, he will render the part for that instrument in the "Fugal Concert" for Flute and Oboe, by Gustay Holst, the English composer who lectured at Harvard last Friday. The orchestra consists of 16 men in addition to Moskovitz, most of whom are members of the Pierian Sodality orchestra...
...cover the distance in three hours. By air it takes 90 min. The winner of last week's outboard motorboat race took 3 hrs. 36 min. 40 sec. When the yellow boat with its Johnson D motor reached 152nd St., Commodore Eldridge fired another pistol and black-mustached Jacob Dunnell of Boston had broken a record for the Albany-New York course. His average speed was 37.4 m. p. h. Honors in last week's race went to the Johnson D motors which won first, second, sixth, seventh and eighth places. Third place went to an Elto...