Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover accepted the resignation, long-since proffered, of Ogden H. Hammond, President of Hoboken Terminal Co., Ambassador to Spain. Urged by influential Senator Reed of Pennsylvania as the successor: Irwin Boyle Laughlin of Pittsburgh, career diplomat (Athens. Tokyo, Peking, Bangkok, St. Petersburg, Berlin, London), elder brother of Pittsburgh's George McCully Laughlin Jr. (Jones & Laughlin, steel...
...Berlin, Michael Bohnen, most currently famed Wagnerian basso, announced that he was "sick and tired" of opera, said the public is tired of it too. He, who has rarely sung twice with the same makeup, is tired of the beards of Hans Sachs, Wotan, Hagen, King Mark. He has signed a contract to make sound-cinemas, believes that "everyone will soon be running to the cinema to take their music in this new form." In Chicago Louis Eckstein wrote a check for $103,458.50, half the deficit of the Ravinia Opera so that an ardently enthusiastic Chicago public might continue...
...Wolfgang Kohier, eminent psychologist of the University of Berlin, will give a public 'lecture on "Psychology and Physics" by courtesy of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology on October 8 at 8 o'clock in Emerson...
Famous as a leader of the so-called "Gesielt School' in psychology, Dr. Kohier is the author of a book called "The Mentality of Apes" which has had a wide circulation in psychological circles. Dr. Kohier is chairman of the departments of philosphy and psychology at the University of Berlin where he founded the Gestelt School. More by necessity than choice, Dr. Kohier took up the psychological study of apes. It was while he was interned on the Canary Islands that he did the research work in ape-study which resulted in the publication of his book...
Mayor Gustav Boess, of Berlin, Frau Boess and their party, arrived in Manhattan, handshook Mayor James John Walker, Berlin's guest two years ago. Mayor Boess at once asked to be shown Coney Island (fun park...