Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill Benton's class of 1921 at Yale there was a nimble-witted youngster named Chester B. ("Chet") Bowles with whom he had only a nodding acquaintance. But by 1929 Bowles knew Benton as ace assistant to Lord & Thomas Adman Albert Lasker in Chicago. Benton knew Bowles as a crack writer who was turning out some $4,000,000 worth of copy annually for Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn in Manhattan. Few months before the stock-market crash, Adman Benton, then 29, and Adman Bowles, then 28, went into the New York Secretary of State's office, came...
...traveled the greatest distance. Likewise this week there were to be banjo, mandolin, hillbilly, Hawaiian, junior, electro-phonic and popularity contests. To be seen and heard in Minneapolis were the most famed virtuosos of fretted instrumentalism, some of them playing on instruments worth thousands of dollars. Tenor Banjoist Albert Bellson played, for the first time anywhere, Bach's famed Chaconne, which is ordinarily a sombre, magnificent violin showpiece. Rev. Adam F. Hunkler, O.S.B., self-taught Catholic priest, played the five-string finger banjo on the same program with that maestro known to all Hawaiian guitarists, Sophocles Papas. Finally there...
...Orleans, U. S. deputy marshals arrested Albert Broel, 46, his friend and fellow Frog-Fancier Sylvester Schutt, charged them with advertising that their frogs would lay 25,000 eggs a year, that in 13 years a brace would return a profit...
...will thus become the second person in U. S. history so honored during life, the first so honored alone. In 1926 Calvin Coolidge shared a half dollar with George Washington to mark the sesquicentennial of the Declaration of Independence Picking a summer house at Saranac Lake, N. Y., Scientist Albert Einstein remarked that he wanted it to escape curiosity seekers who "peer into my windows at Princeton...
...French Foreign Minister who represented France at the London and Geneva parleys on the Rhineland problem was (1 Albert Lebrun, 2 Pierre Laval, 3 Pierre Etienne Flandin, 4 Pierre Cot, 5 Eduard Daladier...