Albert WolffAge: 95 federal law enforment agent who combated the illegal operations of Al Capone in Prohibition-era Chicago, as one of Eliot Ness's incorruptible “Untouchables.” Died: March…
Mariatta WolffAge: 83 novelist whose gritty first novel, Whistle Stop, was considered one of the best books of 1941. It was adapted for film and starred George Raft and Ava Gardner. She wrote…
(Encyclopedia) Haffkine, Waldemar Mordecai Wolff, 1860–1930, Ukrainian microbiologist, b. Odessa, Russia (now in Ukraine). After studying (1879–83) at the Univ. of Odessa with the microbiologist Ilya…
PLANTS Tobias Avery , a Representative from Ohio;
born at Sewickley, Beaver County, Pa., March 17, 1811;
apprenticed to a saddler at the age of twelve;
received a limited common school education…
WOLFF Lester Lionel , a Representative from New York; born in New York City January 4,
1919; attended the public schools of New York City; student at New York
University; lecturer at New York…
WOLFF Joseph Scott , a Representative from Missouri;
born on a farm in Westmoreland County near Greensburg, Pa., June 14, 1878;
attended the public schools;
served with the Fourth United States…
(Encyclopedia) TobitTobittōˈbĭt [key] [Gr. from Heb. Tobijah=God is my good], book of the Old Testament Apocrypha, not included in the Hebrew Bible. It is the account of Tobit, a devout Jew in exile…
