Word: adolph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rosenberg brothers. They think that the chief purpose of match books is to carry advertising. By selling this idea to big & little businessmen, the Rosenbergs have made their Universal Match Corp. the second biggest U.S. matchmaker (first: Diamond) with a gross of $12 million last year.* Last week President Adolph Rosenberg, 61, hailed a new Universal product as the first major innovation in match books in almost 60 years. The product: a match book with a waterproof striking strip that is expected to boost sales $1,000,000 this year. Adolph Rosenberg and his brother Samuel, 57, a Universal vice...
...long after, in 1904, Adolph Ochs made an even smarter move: he lured Night Editor Carr V. Van Anda of the New York Sun to become managing editor on the New York Times. In the next 25 years, Ochs and Van Anda made newspaper legend. It was Ochs who had set the basic pattern: "All the News That's Fit to Print." It was Van Anda, one of the great managing editors of U.S. journalistic history, who cut the cloth to the pattern. When Van Anda finally retired because of ill health in 1932 (he died...
Watch the Cat. The prospects are that the Times, under the control of the "public trust"-minded Sulzbergers, will long remain a top newspaper. Under the will of Adolph Ochs, control of the Times and of the Chattanooga Times (circ. 54,453), will go after the death of Mrs. Sulzberger to the Sulzbergers' three daughters, Marian, 31, who is married to Orvil Dryfoos; Ruth, 29, music critic of the Chattanooga Times, the wife of Ben Hale Golden, who is now getting his careful newspaper schooling at the Chattanooga Times; Judith, 26, a doctor married to Dr. Matthew Rosenschein...
...Otto Adolph Seyferth, 58, became the 23rd president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. A former stone carver and $4-a-week machinist's helper, Seyferth was once president of Michigan's A.F.L. Trades and Labor Council, is now president and owner of the $3,000,000 West Michigan Steel Foundry Co. As a hobby he runs a farm, gives away what he grows, because "if I were to sell [my farm products], I would be making a business of farming. I am in business enough already...
...name honors the Busch and Resigned families. In 1908, Adolph's Busch presented a building fund for the museum and the following year the brewery magnate made an additional gift for endowment...