Word: adolph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years out of Yale, where he chairmanned the funny Yale Record. The Times got him after he had spent one year in an advertising agency, kept him as newshawk and associate editor of the Sunday Book Review until 1933. In the autumn of that year Publisher Adolph Ochs so far foreswore his prejudice against signed columns as to spread a boxed daily review over the top of three Times columns, set young Mr. Chamberlain to writing it. Like few others, Bookman Chamberlain has resisted the pressure to submerge his style in the turgid stupidity of the Times. Conscientious, he spends...
...studios are packed with politics, jealousy, miscellaneous crockeries. Paramount, now in the throes of reorganization, has its share. Early last week, Emanuel ("Manny") Cohen who succeeded Jesse Lasky as Paramount's production chief in 1932, flew to New York, entered the office of Paramount's aging president Adolph Zukor. When he emerged, Manny Cohen announced that he had been fired...
...suite in Manhattan's sedate Hotel Plaza bustled and hummed last week with brisk activity. After more than a year of thoroughgoing preparation. Promoter Adolph Oettinger Goodwin was ready to launch his Goodwin Plan by which church people will promote the sale of certain manufactured products and thereby earn 2% commissions (TIME. Dec. 4. 1933). Despite the criticism leveled at it last year by church papers, the Plan has whetted the pious appetites of churchgoers who plan to give the proceeds to Ladies' Aid Societies, home mission boards, Christian Endeavor, et al. Furthermore, devout buyers are assured that...
...case for the defense was upheld by Robert D. Blaiser 3L and Robert C. Vincent 3L of the Wilson Club, with Walston S. Brown 3L, Gustav H. Dongus 3L, Adolph G. Emhardt, Jr. 3L, Winston B. McCall 3L, and Thomas A. Wilson 3L on the brief. Charles S. Maddock 3L and Martin A. Jurow 3L of the Pollock Club argued for the plaintiff, and four third year law men, Norman Macbeth, Jr. 3L, David G. Marvin 3L, Wilson W. Phelps 3L, and George E. Ray 3L, served on the brief...
...Lives of a Bengal Lancer" is a top-notch adventure story, supplemented by capable acting. Drawing freely from Rudyard Kipling and other authors who have portrayed men under stress of physical danger, Adolph Zukor has transformed William Yeats-Brown's book into an hour of absorbing entertainment...