Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smart is the Prince of Wales?" pecked a newshawk, well knowing that Sir Lionel Halsey, Comptroller of H. R. H.'s household has denied officially that Edward of Wales ever had any dealings with Jake the Barber...
...Chicago last week Illinois lawyers representing the British Crown produced a royal warrant for the arrest of John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, alleged swindler of some $5,000,000 from numerous Britons including Edward of Wales (TIME...
...stage too early to be conclusive. The only swindled English people whose names came out were a Rev. & Mrs. Arthur Travers Faber, he the rector at Hurworth-on-Tees, Durham. This rural English couple managed to lose $55,-ooo, so they claim, in stockjobbing operations conducted by Jake the Barber in London. One job was selling stock in the so-called "Glass Casket Company," a speculation peculiarly appealing to the British investor. Another time Mr. Factor was about to mail out some 300,000 glowing descriptions of a platinum mine when its dubious character was exposed. The 300,000 stamps...
...business. They have affiliations throughout the country, from New York where hey put on more shows than any other producer, through St. Louis where Nephew Milton Shubert is production manager of he Municipal Theatre, to Hollywood where they have potent friends; also eastward into Europe. Last week Brothers Lee & Jake sold out their interest in London's Associated Theatre Properties Inc. (operators of five important West End playhouses: the Apollo, Adelphi, Shaftesbury, Gaiety, His Majesty's) for a reputed price of $2,000,000-$1,000,000 in cash. Control of London's biggest theatre bloc...
Here was a murder difficult of classification; possible motives, innumerable "angles," sprawled like tentacles through the redolent demimonde of Los Angeles politics. The memory of Chicago's Racketeer-Reporter Jake Lingle was still too fresh to allow a repetition in Journalist Spencer's case of the public error of canonizing him too soon as a martyr, a public crusader like Canton, Ohio's revered Editor Don R. Mellett...