Word: busches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adolphus Busch, St. Louis beermaker and Lillie Eberhard Anheuser Busch had been married 50 years, and they had to celebrate. First, 5,000 employes of the Anheuser-Busch breweries were given the day off, and gifts of $5,000 each went to various German-American charities. Adolphus gave his Lillie a crown of gold, studded with pearls and diamonds. William Howard Taft, then President, sent gifts. So did his predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt; and the then Kaiser Wilhelm der Zweite, particular friend of the St. Louis brew master. Everyone sent gifts, $500,000 worth, flowers, $50,000 worth. Adolphus Busch could...
...York Symphony, Walter Damrosch, conductor, Otto Klemperer and Fritz Busch, guest conductors, will give 20 Sunday afternoon concerts, beginning on Oct. 31, 12 Thursday afternoon and 12 Friday evening concerts, 6 Saturday afternoon concerts for young people and 5 Saturday morning concerts for children. Under Dr. Damrosch six new works by six composers of six different countries will be played: De Falla's marionette opera, El Retablo de Maese Pedro, Sibelius' Tapiola, Casella's Scarlatina, Honegger's Phaedre, Ernst Hallfter's Spanish Suite, a symphony by Austin George Antheil, Milhaud's Ballad for Piano...
Regarding the pomposities of Busch of Madison, Wis. [TIME, June 7], couldn't it be arranged to get this hungry blood-lapping, Nietzschean blond super-beast out of his cage? Perhaps after a little outdoor exercise he would lose some of his zest for splashing ink unnecessarily...
TIME regrets that, in spite of fresh provocation, there is no more space for anti-Busch eloquence...
...American protest at Busch's blanket indictment of his own race...