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...relations to the Government of the United States, there is a different story to tell. But here the explanation is not so much the cooperative character of the organization as the false philosophy of the two men who are today the powerful influences in the Associated Press, Adolph S. Ochs [publisher of the New York Times'], its leading director, and Frank B. Noyes [publisher of the Washington Star'), its president...
Canadian Cinema. Similar names, Adolph Zukor serving as president of both, a distribution contract until 1939, would indicate that the bonds of interest between Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp. and Famous Players Canadian Corp., Ltd., are close indeed. But last year F. P. C. established its independence when a group of Canadians acquired control by purchasing a block of stock from Paramount and setting up a voting trusteeship. Soon afterward control was almost resold to Gaumont British Pictures Corp., Ltd., Fox controlled. Perhaps to avert some such catastrophe in the future, Paramount last week offered to exchange its shares for those...
...reported to have exceeded that of any year since 1913. Approxmately one-third of the $250,000,000 was spent on old masters. Chief buyers: Collector Thomas Benedict Clarke, Banker Jules Semon Bache, Motorman Lawrence P. Fisher, Financier-Socialite Joseph E. Widener, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Capitalist Sam Adolph Lewisohn, many a museum. Chief buy: Delia Francesco's The Crucifixion bought from Anderson Galleries by Sir Joseph Duveen...
Once in a dog's age only is Adolph Ochs enabled to print in his New York Times a letter of such genuine interest as that which Josef Nosko wrote last week...
John Dewey, Professor of Philosophy at Columbia, and Adolph Goldschmidt, professor at the University of Berlin, will come to Harvard as lecturers for half of the academic year 1930-31. Each will be the first incumbent of a recently endowed lectureship. Professor Dewey will be William James lecturer during the second half of the next academic year; Professor Goldschmidt will be Kuno Francke Professor of German art and culture for the first half...