Word: adolph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House job to take a $30,000 position as public relations executive with Paramount-Publix Corp. President Hoover, whom as Secretary of Commerce Mr. Akerson had helped greatly to build up popularly and politically to receive the Republican nomination, spoke of his "great regret at losing an old friend." Adolph Zukor, P.-P. president, hailed his new executive as "a splendid example of manpower...
Huntington Badger Henry (she was a Swift) gave a joint, lavish party at the Blackstone for their daughters Geraldine Swift and Hortense Henry. San Francisco. Mrs. Adolph...
...newsgatherers the short interview on the Belgenland.∙ After it she saw him receive the warmest reception ever given by Manhattan to a scientist. Crowds and applause followed him when he went ashore to dinner with Dr. Paul Schwarz, the German consul; when he had luncheon with Adolph Simon Ochs, publisher of the New York Times; when he spoke on Zionism over the radio, when he went to the Metropolitan Opera House to hear Maria Jeritza sing Carmen; when he was escorted to City Hall by Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler to shake hands with wisecracking little...
...national competitors to the Exhibitors Herald-World (circ. 12,000, more than blanketing the 9,500 owners of U. S. pictures houses) were Motion Picture News, Exhibitors Daily Review & Motion Picture News Today, and Film Daily. The new lineup of head men in the film industry (No. 1 still Adolph Zukor, No. 2 Harley L. Clarke instead of William Fox) made it seem wise and profitable for Publisher Quigley to acquire all but Film Daily and try to give the film industry something comparable to the steel industry's august Iron...
...handlebars. The crowds, always emphatically Italian in Manhattan, cheered Linari & Binda, billed as an imported road team, but they yelled loudest for their favorites, Franco Georgetti and Paul Brocardo. When the last hour began, Brocardo & Georgetti were riding desperately to keep a one-lap lead over two young Belgians, Adolph Charlier and Roger De Nef. Strong, ambitious, daring, Charlier & De Nef were in every jam, always dangerous, took three times as many points for sprints as anyone else. But in that last hour of a race in which there had been many accidents and in which all records since...