Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rotten situation which has made ticket distribution a 'racket.' " Producer White was adamant. He threatened to start a move among producers that would finish the League, namely, to get all tickets back where they belonged-in box offices. To Attorney General Hamilton Ward of New York went Bernard H. Sandier and William Russell Willcox,* retained as counsel by 23 nonLeague brokers, to procure an order dissolving the League. Their charge: the League constitutes a monopoly operating in restraint of trade. They illustrated the social usefulness of small "scalpers" thus: New Jersey's Governor Morgan F. Larson last...
Jacobsen's three comrades?Marie Roemaet-Rosanoff, violoncello; Paul Bernard, second violin; Louis Kaufman, viola?are of U. S. birth. Critics agree that each is a virtuoso in his own right. The Quartet's origin was as casual as its playing has been brilliant. The four friends, students in the Institute of Musical Art at Manhattan, had long been wont to meet of an afternoon or evening and beguile the hours with music for their own entertainment. Often they played at the home of Efrem Zimbalist and his wife Alma Gluck, or for Jascha Heifetz. Sometimes, with one of these...
Behind this gloating announcement was the story of a battle which began soon after the Publisher-Brothers Ridder went to Paterson in June last year. The Ridder Brothers* ? Bernard Herman, Victor Frank, Joseph Edward (TIME, July 1, 1929)?bought the Paterson Press-Guardian from William B. Bryant. The Evening News at that time trailed the Press-Guardian with 14,000 circulation. The Call, a morning paper, led with...
...Author. Herbert George Wells, 63, with Playwright George Bernard Shaw, was one of the potent pre-War prophets of the then younger generation. Post-War youth looks at him askance, thinks him unreliable, refuses to take him seriously. His enthusiasm, inquisitiveness, missionary spirit have made him one of the most versatile writers (in subject-matter) of his century. Son of Professional Cricketer Joseph Wells, he was educated as a biologist, has written on religion, science, history, politics, international relations, socialism, tactics, education, philosophy. Onetime socialist, onetime passionate patriot, he is always promulgating some new social religion. Short, stout, bright-eyed...
...Declared Bernard Edward Sunny, Board Chairman of Illinois' Bell Telephone Co., to the graduating class of Armour Institute of Technology at Chicago: "It's far better for a young man starting out in the world to have an exaggerated ego than an inferiority complex...