Word: jacobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done many a time long ago. One sentimentalist in the audience whispered: "Maybe they'll go home together." It was sentiment, but not romance, that had brought Ruth St. Denis from California to help Shawn raise money for scholarships on which returning soldiers could attend his Jacob's Pillow (Mass.) Dance Festival...
Moscow's controlled press screeched at Herbert Hoover, only living ex-President of the U.S., last week. One Jacob Viktorov, an editorial writer on Pravda, caterwauled at Mr. Hoover in notes just flat of high C. Shrilled Viktorov, after the New York Times published four critical essays by Herbert Hoover on the San Francisco World Security Conference...
...down recently when it tried to buy the San Francisco Chronicle, yearns to invade the Golden Gate newspaper field. Despite its small Manhattan circulation (207,524), the Post has big money behind it: Owner-publisher Dorothy Schiff Hall Backer Thackrey is the granddaughter of the late Wall Street Banker Jacob Schiff...
Joseph T. McNarney, Omar N. Bradley, Walter Krueger, Brehon B. Somervell, Carl Spaatz, George C. Kenney, Mark Clark, Jacob L. Devers, Thomas T. Handy...
Klaxon-voiced New York Auctioneer Jacob Goldberg had had a three-and-a-half-hour grilling by the Mead Committee (formerly the Truman Committee) and he was hopping mad. Finally he stood at bay, angrily accused the investigators of trying to tear down his character, and of tapping the telephone wire of his firm (Surplus Liquidators, Inc., which held a contract to sell some $750,000 worth of Defense Plant Corp. surpluses to the public). Without pausing for breath, he also charged that the Senate's Committee was wasting millions in its investigation of Government surplus property disposal methods...