Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fidgety, canny Roger Touhy, 45, sentenced to 99 years for the $70,000 kidnapping of Promoter John ("Jake the Barber") Factor in 1933, is one of the few real gangster toughies left. A runty guy (5 ft. 5, 139 lb.), he bossed the Capone-rivaling Touhy mob during Chicago's gory beer-war and kidnap-racket days, until sentence in 1934 cut him down. Slant-eyed Basil Banghart, 41, the Touhy mob's tommy-gunner, likewise was serving 99 years for the Factor job. Chicago detectives label him "a regular sharpie," tougher by far than Tough Touhy. Completely...
...publishing a story that he had "shortchanged" some performers 74? apiece on their rehearsal pay, veteran Broadway Producer Jacob J. ("Jake") Shubert sued the theatrical trade paper Variety for libel, asked $100,000 damages...
Cobbler Harry Jake DeVoogd, 26, of Boone, Iowa is an earnest young man with a broad grin and a deformed foot. His draft classification was 4-F and the Army refused him when he volunteered...
...Finally Jake thought it was time to write another letter to the President: "In the last 18 months we have turned out approximately 18,000 flanges. We work on an average of 15 hours per day, seven days a week. I am 60 years old and my assistant is 79. He handles all flanges from 12-in. down, and I take them from 14 up to 30. Some of the castings weigh 365 Ib. We feel that owing to our age and the amount of work we are doing we are entitled to a pennant...
...gent any salary," said Jake, discussing his labor relations. "When we run out of money, I go over to the pipe company and get what we got coming. We take out what we need for grub and living expenses and buy war bonds with the rest...