Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Josef Hofmann, one of "the three pianists":* "Like my friend, Violinist Auer, I have just become a U. S. citizen. I have made my home in the U. S. since my marriage, in 1905, to the daughter of James B. Eustis, of New Orleans, Ambassador to France under Grover Cleveland. Mrs. Edward Bok, daughter of Publisher-Patron-Organist Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, and her son, Curtis, were my sponsors for citizenship papers. I am living at the Bok residence at Merion, Pa., while my wife and daughter Josefa are abroad. This is convenient for my directorial duties at Curtis Institute...
...matter where Dr. William Henry Welch of Johns Hopkins goes he finds friends to greet him with that affectionate regard which able men yield to an able, modest confrere. It may be at New Haven, Manhattan, Strassburg, Leipzig, Breslau, Berlin, where he has studied; or at Philadelphia, Cleveland, Cambridge, (Mass.) , Cambridge (Eng.), Princeton, Chicago, Washington or elsewhere, where he has received honorary degrees; in the U. S., England, Scotland, Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, where he belongs to learned societies; or Japan...
...Perhaps the most pleasant feature of the book is the simple, Honest manner in which the subject is approached and discussed. Congressman Luce is not a blind optimist but neither is he a pessimist. Therefore his opinions are of genuine value."--Cleveland Topics...
Ford Implications. Ford Motor Co. placed a materials order at Cleveland last week, which implies the coming production of a new Ford car with larger brake drums and gasoline tank and a changed running board. The modifications require 17,000 tons of steel additional to the company's normal annual tonnage. If Ford bodies were made entirely of steel, the increased tonnage would be 55,000, according to the Daily Metal Trade...
...speakers who preached from soap boxes on street corners were of their persuasion. Anti-Buchmanites have since protested that a much smaller percentage of the preachers were Buchmanites, that Buchmanism did not characterize the revival. The revival was planned and directed by one W. Cleveland Hicks, graduate of Trinity College, no Buchmanite. By definition, Buchmanism, which consists in private conferences between gospeler and proselyte, did not obtain at Waterbury, where the work was primarily with crowds at street corners, in factories, schools, shops. According to its promoters, the Waterbury revival was "adventurous religion . . . flaming youth . . . united impact ... a synthesis between...