Word: adolph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next evening he won the 500-yd. free style in 5:16.3, breaking the accepted world's record for that distance by 10 seconds, setting marks for 250, 300 and 400 yd. en route. Sixth important record was 1 :36.1 for the 150-yd. back stroke, made by Adolph Kiefer...
...swimmer in the U. S. since Johnny Weissmuller became a cinemactor. Peter Fick, last week's free-style sprint winner, 20 years old, 185 lb., broke Weissmuller 's 100-metre record last year. Third of last week's main Olympic hopes, unknown nationally until this winter, Adolph Kiefer is a 16-year-old Chicagoan, trained by his father, onetime swimming instructor in the German Army...
Last week the same newspaper owner, Adolph Simon Ochs, arrived in Chattanooga again, to visit his successful Times, for which he had never lost affection throughout the years that he published a far greater newspaper in Manhattan. He was old now-77-and in precarious health. Publisher Ochs joined heartily in a staff meeting in the Chattanooga city room. Then with his brother Col. Milton Ochs and a few other relatives he went to a restaurant for luncheon. Brother Milton asked him what he wanted to eat. He sat dumb, not hearing, not seeing. Few hours later Death stopped...
...Tenn. where, at eleven, he began delivering papers; how he became printer's devil and learned the pressman's trade. It recalled his dogged determination and the editorial shrewdness by which he made the Chattanooga Times a thriving. potent newspaper. Then came the day in 1896 when Adolph Ochs, 38. heard of a chance to acquire the New York Times. To a publisher friend he confided: "I don't believe I'm a big enough man for the job." "Don't tell anybody," was his friend's advice, "and they'll never find...
Also in his first year Adolph Ochs took another bold step which was significantly prophetic. He rejected $150.000 worth of advertising-enough to ensure the Times's success-which had been offered by the Tammany-controlled city government, because he feared even the appearance of evil. Less than four years after his arrival in Manhattan the Times was out of debt. In the next 38 years it amassed a daily circulation...