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...jovial Irishman named Victor Herbert (Mlle Modiste) and an ex-U. S. Marine Corps bandmaster named John Philip Sousa ("The Stars and Stripes Forever") founded A. S. C. A. & P. to collect royalties for songwriters and com posers whose works were then being bandied from one cafe to another with never a penny's profit to the men who made them. At first it was uphill sledding bu. Victor Herbert had a smart attorney named Nathan Burkan and a willing helper named Eugene Howard Buck, who collaborated on 20 Ziegfeld Follies. Under George Maxwell, its first president, and now under...
...Here resulted an effective community of directives and methods in what concerns the independence and integrity of the Austrian State, an independence and integrity to which appertains also com plete internal autonomy and which represent, moreover, the concrete European interest and a favorable element for the maintenance of the Danubian sector...
...father was Henry-Churchill DeMille, who collaborated on plays with the late David Belasco. When Henry DeMille died, his widow first turned her home into a girls' school, sent young Cecil to Pennsylvania Military College. his older brother William to Columbia. Later she founded the DeMille Play Com pany, originally formed to supply the in creasing demand for DeMille-Belasco plays, which did a flourishing agent's business for 20 years. Young Cecil studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, set out to be an actor. After a few seasons on the stage, he became manager of his mother...
...sound finance, yielding to the extraordinary fiscal demands of a powerful President. One by one, Governor Black saw the important functions of the Reserve System taken away ? its control of the currency, its control of credit. Future financiers will know whether his yielding saved the System from com plete destruction or paved the way for its complete downfall...
...committee of Stewart-Warner Corp., was made chairman of the board of directors, succeeding the late Robert J. Graham. Onetime official of General Electric Co.. now president of Chicago's Speedway Manufacturing Co.. Chairman Knowlson went on Stewart-Warner's board of directors after the com pany was forced to clean house by the accusations of its fourth largest stockholder and most famed inventor, Oscar Ulysses Zerk (TIME, March...