Word: named
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read treatises on precious stones, used jewelers' tools to break up or remake stolen jewelry. To avoid the underworld markdown on hot goods, he printed up cards which bore his name and the legend "Felix P. Jacobson Co., 5 South Wabash, Chicago, Ill."-an active firm whose name he had simply appropriated. He posed as a legitimate salesman and always demanded list prices for stones...
Along with Jack Haley, Miss Lillie is now appearing in Boston in a musical revue called "Inside U.S.A.," which takes it name, and nothing else, from the latest of John Gunther's Insides to come out. The sketches are contributed by several of the best revue writers in the business--Arnold Horwitt, Arnold Auerbach, and Moss Hart--and the lyrics and music are by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz...
...hands of the states, perhaps the doctrine of paramount rights would allow the federal government to regulate the conservation of the oil while the states would maintain their ownership. States and oil interests, however, fear what might be done by the federal government in the name of conservation...
...members of the Social Affairs Committee were indulging in random and irresponsible personal squabbling. They had never wanted the proceedings to be known, they said; once the case became public they about-faced to preserve their chairman's name. Their arguments are not convincing: either Lally was guilty of the charges--and there is some reason to think that he had not run the Committee well--or he was not to blame for the mixups. If he was in the wrong there was no reason to shield him; if the charges were strong enough to be raised and accepted...
...Perkins Hall parking lot is a disgrace to the alleged fair name of Harvard. It consists of a quarter acre of MUD, oozing mud, rutted mud, sodden hub-cap-deep mud. It is pitted with chuck holes and topped off by a thirty by ten foot lake of uncertain depth. On the surface of "Lake Perkins" float pieces of old lumber, clothing, garbage, and sundry other debris. A student auto bearing a Massachusetts license plate was recently mired in the middle of Lake Perkins for two weeks, blocking off the rest of the lot since a voyage across this atrocity...