Word: adolph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curtain raiser to that organization's summer season in Robin Hood Dell. Because the Philadelphia musicians play on a cooperative basis, never knowing what their salaries will be, Conductor Whiteman donated most of his men's services, asking only expenses and $1,500 for crack Arranger Adolph Deutsch. During rehearsals Whiteman perspired through a green shirt, puffed a long cigar. Violinist Arthur Lipkin, chairman of the Dell concerts, went through an anti-rain ceremony on the strength of his having been made Honorary Medicine Man.& Rainmaker by Navajo Indians during the Philadelphians' national tour (TIME, April...
...Adolph Spreckels, grandson of John Diedrich Spreckels, California sugar tycoon, was racing a borrowed outboard motorboat in a regatta on Green Lake, Seattle, when the throttle jammed. Roaring straight into the beach, the tiny craft leaped high as it struck, careened through a crowd of spectators, crashed on top of a sound truck. Sportsman Spreckels was catapulted into the air against a telephone pole where he hung by an arm impaled on one of the climbing spikes. Taken down unconscious, with the arm torn open from shoulder to wrist, he was hospitalized with one of the spectators...
...Adolph Alexander Weinman (Frieze and bronze groups for Chicago Elks Memorial) saw the big bronze doors for the American Academy of Arts & Letters Building in Manhattan taking form in his studio at Forest Hills, L. I. Last year this job came to Sculptor Weinman as a direct commission...
...Association takes it for granted that all its members that are active in writing or speaking have studied Adolph Hitler's fundamental book, "Mein Kampf", with all scientific energy possible, and accepted it as a basis...
...Adolph W. Samborski '26, Director of Intramural Athletics, presented a third trophy, the tennis bowl, to the manager of the Bellboy netmen, and spoke on the value of managers to athletics...