Word: ball
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempt to create realistic reproductions of English life and the recent Coronation, the committee in charge of the Freshman Jubilee, known this year as the Coronation Ball, are planning extensive decorations which wil adorn the Union on Friday evening...
...Armand Tokatyan (Rodolfo) hit his top notes squarely but could not resist hanging on to them. Rosa Tentoni sang Mimi with more intelligence than warmth. Soprano Margaret Daum, who took the lead in Gian-Carlo Menotti's recent Amelia Goes to the Ball, overacted impudent Musetta, won praise for her fluty, delightful singing...
...Sweringen rail and real-estate empire, Alleghany Corp. and Chesapeake Corp. Proxies prosaically were cast to elect as directors the new controlling interests in Alleghany Corp. At the same time in Manhattan, Stockbrokers Robert Ralph Young and Frank Frederick Kolbe were sitting down with George A. Ball to complete the transaction by which the 74-year-old Muncie, Ind. fruit-jar manufacturer stepped down as the dominant figure in the Van Sweringen picture (TIME...
Place of the Manhattan meeting was the Manufacturers Trust Co. offices at Broad & Beaver Streets where old Mr. Ball made his headquarters in September 1935 when he bought into Alleghany Corp. at Wall Street's most spectacular auction. Passed to Mr. Ball last week was a check for $3,000,000 made out to the philanthropic George & Frances Ball Foundation and signed by Allan Price Kirby, son of one of the founders of F. W. Woolworth Co. and the third partner in the deal. Another $1,000,000 came from Messrs. Young & Kolbe. Rest of the sale price...
...further taste of how the self-styled "babes" in the Van Sweringen corporate woods do business. After munching sandwiches and drinking coffee in Mr. Young's tapestried dining room, newshawks met short, grey Frank B. Bernard of Muncie's Merchants National Bank, who will represent the Ball Foundation on Alleghany Corp.'s board. Next to be introduced was ruddy-faced, bald-pated Charles Leininger Bradley, chairman of the Erie R. R. and one of the late Oris Paxton Van Sweringen's closest associates. He will be Alleghany's president, Stockbroker Young its chairman...