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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last May, when the purple path of Congressman Adolph Joseph Sabath's committee investigating bondholders' reorganizations led to Philadelphia for a second time, Philadelphia Co. investors packed the Federal Building to hear what the Philadelphia Inquirer called "one of the most sensational exposes of alleged practices in Philadelphia's top-rank financial world within memory of the present generation." When the Sabath committee scored, the investors cheered. When the sweating bankers offered explanations, they booed and waved empty pocketbooks. Sample revelations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Philadelphia Shocker | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...produced. In it, Mr. Ruggles is determined to be as wicked as possible so as to satisfy his wife, who has made up her mind that she is losing something from life. This all sounds a trifle complicated, and Miss Boland gets "that way" after listening to Adolph Menjou, the author of "Marriage, the Living Death". All in all the hill is worthy of recommendation for all who find Cambridge a grim place these days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: * The Moviegoer * | 11/27/1936 | See Source »

...House track meet will be held Tuesday, December 15, Adolph W. Samborski '26, Director of Intramural Athletics, announced last night. He also stated that winter House Sports, some of which had been scheduled for next Monday, will not begin until Tuesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 11/21/1936 | See Source »

...years, Ira Hirschmann has plu ged into many ventures, seen most of them succeed. Son of a Baltimore banker, Adolph B. Hirschmann, he studied economics at Johns Hopkins, left at 17, took up music with Peabody Institute instructors. At 20 he got a job as office boy in L. Bamberger & Co.'s department store, Newark. There he helped build radio station WOR, annotated its Philharmonic Orchestra broadcasts for three years, was appointed sales and publicity director at 23. Six years later he took the same post with Lord & Taylor's store, planned their crisp black and white advertisements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Friends | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

House athletics on the winter schedule get under way Monday, November 23, according to the announcement of Adolph W. Samborski '25, director of Intramural athletics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTER SCHEDULE FOR HOUSE ATHLETIC TEAMS HAS MANY ACTIVITIES | 11/14/1936 | See Source »

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