Word: adolph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time the U. S. public learned what the editor of its biggest magazine was paid. The salary of Sateve-post's George Horace Lorimer was reduced from $133,399 in 1929 to $118,750 in 1932. Adolph Zukor's bonus as president of Paramount Publix was $757,500 in 1929, plus salary of $130,000. For 1932 he listed salary of $96,031, no bonus. But Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's famed Producer Irving Thalberg, who received $208,000 straight salary in 1929, was still getting $201,000 in 1932-$99,000 less than...
...ADOLPH BREMER...
...later the sports did the square thing. For $200,000 in $5 & $10 bills they turned Edward Bremer, 36-year-old son of rich Brewer Adolph, loose on a side street in Rochester, Minn., 85 mi. south of St. Paul. Edward walked dizzily in circles for a while, finally made his way back to his father's house by bus, train and cab. All the way home he kept his hat down over his eyes and his coat collar up so nobody would recognize him, prematurely set up a hue-and-cry for the kidnappers who had held...
...Synod of Missouri, Ohio and Other States (membership about 800,000) -the magazine is sympathetic with a liturgical movement which currently is exciting Lutherans almost as much as the Oxford Movement excited Anglicans a century ago. Leaders in the liturgical crusade are Pastors Frederick R. Webber of Cleveland, Adolph Wismar of Manhattan, Berthold von Schenk of Hoboken, N. J. and Carl Bergen of Leonia, N. J. They work through the Liturgical Society of St. James which they founded eight years ago. They advocate a change not in theological doctrine but in church services, with pastors wearing proper vestments, decking their...
...Christmas holidays. Most of its first-stringers are seniors playing their third season and apparently bored with the game. Tied for first place are Penn and Yale, last year's champion. South. From Kansas, where lives the inventor of basketball, Dr. James A. Naismith, went jovial, jowled Adolph Rupp to teach the University of Kentucky boys how to play. He taught them so well that in three years they won 64 out of 72 games, and last year the Southeastern Conference. Last week, undefeated for the season, his team moved toward another championship by beating Alabama...