Word: adolph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again the prickly problem of Germany's short term loans. Before leaving he gave an out-of-the-ordinary going-away party: a private view before the public exhibition of his collection of Forain paintings, etchings and lithographs. John Pierpont Morgan attended. So did John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Adolph Ochs, Ogden Reid, Owen D. Young, Nicholas Murray Butler, Paul Cravath, Arthur Curtiss James, Arthur Brisbane, Lily Pons. There...
Last week the following were news: Mutual expressions of admiration and gratitude were exchanged last week when John Daniel Hertz, 53, resigned as chairman of Paramount Publix's finance committee. Direct cause of his move was a conflict with President Adolph Zukor, 60 last week, over "the technical limitations upon the authority of various officers.'' Other important resignations from the company in recent months have included Sam Katz, onetime close Hertz ally. Sidney Kent, Jesse Lasky. Mr. Hertz entered Paramount's affairs 14 months ago at the "suggestion" of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., bankers and creditors...
...Confederate Veteran grew out of a series of circular letters in 1890 soliciting funds for a Jefferson Davis Memorial in Richmond. The founder was Sumner A. Cunningham, a Tennessee publisher who had lately sold his Chattanooga Times for $300 to an up-&-coming young newspaperman named Adolph Ochs. Cunningham's pamphlets about the memorial fund aroused so much interest among the Grays that he started the monthly magazine to retain that interest. Main features were veterans' reminiscences, historical sketches "to correct erroneous impressions...
...assure close cooperation between the House teams and the Harvard Athletic Association in such matters as equipment, playing area and coaches, and in accordance with the suggestion of the Student Council, I appointed the Director of Intra-mural Athletics, Adolph W. Samborski '25, to be Secretary of the House Athletic Committee. In the administration of House athletics Mr. Samborski has no instructions from us, other than to offer his experience to help the House Committee. On the other hand, he does not knowingly allow a House to default in athletics because of the improper selection of an unqualified representative...
...where they were strewn about, thumbed them over, looking for one to fit the melancholy morning. Adams House, he reflected, has the gold where-with; he was glad that his sense for the bizarre had led him to adopt Adams as the refuge in which to claim sanctuary while Adolph the Ambitious removed the last vestiges of revelry from Number 14 Plympton Street...