Word: adolph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Mr. Adolph Ochs, owner of what Comrade Mencken would call the "eminent" New York Times, having arrived in Hawaii on a holiday expressed himself to one of the local newspapers, the Honolulu Advertiser, as follows...
Also into the proceedings was dragged the pathetic picture of the Brothers Pulitzer peddling the proud Worlds from door to door of Manhattan's leading publishers. They had approached Adolph Ochs of the Times, Ogden Reid of the Herald Tribune, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis of the Evening Post and Philadelphia Public Ledger, also, it was rumored, their former Executive Editor Herbert Bayard Swope, backed by potent Democratic tycoons. No sale...
Incognito as "Monsieur Adolphe," His Majesty King Gustaf V arrived for his usual winter sojourn on the French Riviera last week, made for a charity gala at the Casino in Cannes. Strolling in late, Monsieur Adolph learned that 25 tickets for the charity raffle remained unsold, bought ail of them. Few hours later he learned he had won a building lot at a new Riviera resort now striving mightily to push itself. Lotteries, beauty contests, automobile raffles and all such on the Riviera are very often "fixed." Even smarter is the usual way of naming prizes. The prettiest girl...
...melancholia which made life unbearable for Pascin himself. Last week was another Pascin exhibition at Manhattan's Downtown Gallery. Socialites, reporters, art critics flocked to it. Standing sponsors were such people as smartchart Editor Frank Crowninshield, Art Critic Henry McBride, Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Adolph Lewisohn. An elaborate illustrated catalog was prepared. The show was a decided success. Apart from the fact that the first Pascin exhibition contained some of his worst pictures, the second most of his best, between the two shows the artist himself suddenly and horribly committed suicide. To the general public...
Publisher Adolph S. Ochs of the New York Times intends to devote the first six pages of his paper to Cancer news, when a Cure for Cancer is discovered - no matter if the U. S. is being defeated...