Word: jacobses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When his Contract Bridge Match for the "Championship of the World'' started in Manhattan last month Promoter Michael Strauss Jacobs proudly announced that, on its last evening, the event would be moved into Madison Square Garden, with 52 sandwich men impersonating a pack of cards so that 15...
Michael Strauss ("Mike") Jacobs is a fat, pink-shirted promoter who started his business career selling newspapers on a tough and highly competitive corner in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Later he became a peanut & popcorn peddler on Coney Island excursion boats, a venture which ended by his owning...
Associated with Mr. Jacobs was a small, extravagantly mustached press agent named Benjamin Sonnenberg, whose tasks in the past have included making Mrs. Roosevelt a shoe saleswoman on the radio, promoting Trader Horn and the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, urging socialites to play billiards. Promoter Jacobs and Press Agent...
Before they could say "One No Trump," the Frenchmen were shot up to a large chamber in Essex House which was arranged as if for bearbaiting. There, in two pits with 250 kibitzers mounted in circles behind them, the Frenchmen were told that they would begin play this week for...
He was sufficiently satisfied by the reply to ask a second question. How could his son, "as big as a house", become a prize-fighter? Our friend did his best but he told us afterwards that while Professor Kittredge had done his best by Will Shakespeare as Clarence Darrow, he...