Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outsider was admitted to Col. Jake Ruppert's office in his big red brick brewery, but Manhattan newshawks knew what went on inside. Most specific was Reporter Rud Rennie in the Herald Tribune...
Demoralized by a 31-point onslaught by Dartmouth in the first 15 minutes of play in which Al Bonniwell and Jake Edwards, the Green forwards, figured as high-point scorers, Harvard trailed the whole game. Jim Grady again scored the highest number of points for the Crimson, with seven points, as Gene Merry accounted for five and Dan Comfort made four...
...Sears) has a cheeriness, a salutary tang that is particularly appropriate to the time of Yale logs and winter evens. If you wish to have a little excitement to touch off your evening's reading of the heavier volumes, a few hours will be entertainingly spent with Congo Jake in the winds of Africa. A. C. Collondon (Clande Kendall, $2.75) takes you through some tight squeezes that will make you wish the fire would stop throwing shadows on the wall...
Thus unsuccessfully ended the elaborate attempt of Chicago and Federal police to trap John ("Jake the Barber") Factor's kidnappers who had audaciously demanded a payment of $50,000 in addition to the $50,000 they collected when they released him last month. By tapping the telephone wires in Factor's apartment the officers had learned of the second extortion demand, persuaded the frightened Factor to let them lay an elaborate ambush. All they got for their pains was the hat & coat and the damaged sedan, the license of which was listed under the name...
...Milwaukee, Roger Touhy and three other members of Chicago's "Terrible Touhy" gang, were charged with the kidnapping of William Hamm Jr., St. Paul brewer. Arrested at Elkhorn, Wis. fortnight ago, they were first thought to have engineered the snatching of John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, but Factor refused to identify them...