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...TIME regarding my alleged fishing exploits. Like the report of Mark Twain's death it was somewhat exaggerated. Obviously you have confused me with the other Holmes whose name, like my nickname, is Jay and who is. as I am not, the grandson of the late Charles Fleischmann (yeast). This confusion of our two names is not unprecedented but, as you can imagine, it is annoying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 21, 1931 | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

After being reported missing off the coast of Maine on his 110-ft. yacht Ajax, Jabish Holmes Jr. of New York, grandson of the late Charles Fleischmann (yeast), turned up safely. His story: fishing seven miles off shore he and his friends had hooked a "700-lb." horse mackerel (tuna) which towed them far to sea, kept them up all night, then got away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Big Ones | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

...impossible to account legally for 534 million lb. In 1930 the eccentric finger of the law pointed to two companies, 43 individuals, accused them of participating in conspiracies to violate the Prohibition law. The cases against the others are still pending. Prominent will be that of Fleischmann Co. whose yeast is an ingredient of many a mug of beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Technical Guilt | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...found living with a married man by a Methodist deaconess; 3) ordering special probation reports to support her convictions of prostitutes who had appealed; 4) buying stock in a bail bond concern that did business in her court; 5) exploiting her office for $1,000 from Fleischmann's yeast. Though not corrupt she was found "judicially unfit" to occupy the bench on which she had so proudly sat for twelve happy years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Norris Ousted | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

...Women's Court; 2) she had altered the records in another vagrancy case so as to prejudice the defendant on appeal; 3) she held stock in a bonding company which operated in her court; 4) she had exploited her judicial position by accepting $1,000 to endorse a yeast product. Policemen. From testimony dug up during the magistracy hearings, Andrew G. McLaughlin, ousted vice squad member, was indicted last week for perjury. It was against him that notorious Benita Franklin Bischoff was about to bring framing charges when she was murdered.* A week before the McLaughlin indictment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Scandals of New York (Cont'd) | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

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