Word: adolph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be best for everyone interested to await scientific confirmation." His associates proceeded to discuss among other things: The Nose of the American Negro (Dr. George Dee Williams, St. Louis;; The Clavicle of the American Negro (Dr. Robert James Terry, St. Louis); Body Proportions of Adult Catarrhine Primates (Dr. Adolph Hans Schnltz, Baltimore); Dental Caries in Living Alaskan Eskimo (Henry B. Collins Jr., Washington); Notes on Cheyenne Anthropometry (Dr. Truman Michelson, son of the late great Albert Abraham Michelson, Washington...
...points, however, there seemed to be general agreement: 1) the Glass-Steagall bill directly interposed the public credit of the U. S. Government for the private credit of U. S. finance and industry; 2) the Federal Reserve Board?Governor Meyer, Adolph > Miller, Charles S. Hamlin, George R. James, and Wayland W. Magee, together with Secretary Mills and Comptroller of the Currency Pole? was made a virtual dictator of U. S. currency and hence U. S. economics for one full year...
Tattlers were busily giving reasons why Vice President and General Distribution Manager Sidney R. Kent resigned from Paramount-Publix Corp. last month, were guessing his plans. Popular, an excellent salesman, Manager Kent was an Adolph Zukor protege. His resignation was sudden. Theories heard last week boiled down to two: 1) Mr. Kent resented the increasing power of Sam Katz (cofounder of famed Balaban & Katz theatre chain) in the company; 2) Mr. Kent had quarreled with Taximan John Daniel Hertz, leader of Paramount's new management. Every producer was said to be angling for Mr. Kent last week, with...
Said New York's Mayor Walker: "If we had a few more Lewisohns and a few less grouches in this city it would be even a happier place." Occasion: a testimonial concert at Hunter College to Adolph Lewisohn, famed philanthropist and music patron. In the course of eulogies of Mr. Lewisohn by Lieut.-Governor Herbert H. Lehman, Lawyer George Gordon Battle et al., it was revealed that a chamber music foundation is being planned by a group of patrons headed by Mr. Lewisohn and including Clarence Hungerford Mackay, Otto Hermann Kahn, Theodore Steinway. Patron Lewisohn declared that he "would...
...Manhattan, Adolph Kanter, 44, drove his car through the railing and off a 75-ft. viaduct, found that instead of being killed he had suffered only a black eye, a few bruises. More proud than thankful, Adolph Kanter said he had saved himself by clinging to the cushion of his car, wrote an ode about his feat: Here I am, the miracle man, The one that flies in a Chrysler car; Lindy hopped over the ocean, Made a perfect landing in France; So did I make a perfect landing Over a Viaduct fence. I dropped seventy-five feet with...