Word: emanuele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Symphony which last week made its annual visit to Manhattan. Detroit's double-barreled man is Ossip Gabrilowitsch, long famed as a pianist of the first order, famed since he began working in Detroit (1918) as an able conductor. His performance last week was to conduct Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach's brisk Concerto in D, followed with an uneven performance of Brahms' Fourth Symphony. Then, handing his baton to capable Victor Kolar, he seated himself at the piano, played Mozart's D Minor Concerto with such expert tenderness as to make many in the audience almost...
...Manhattan, onetime Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith, now enterprising citizen of big projects (part owner of New York "Giants," trustee of New York State College of Forestry, director of the National Surety Company, board chairman of the County Trust Co., and president of Empire State Building Corp.), announced that the plans of the Empire State building, world's largest, tallest, on the old Waldorf-Astoria site on Fifth Avenue, would include a mooring mast as dirigible way-station, 1,300 feet above the street...
...Secretary of State; an honorary D.C.L. (Doctor of Civil Law) ; at Oxford University. Awarded. To Dr. Hugo Eckener, Commander of the Graf Zeppelin; the Ntional Geographic Society's gold medal. He said he would travel to the U. S. in March to get it. Elected. Alfred Emanuel Smith, onetime (1928) Democratic Candidate for President; to be Board Chairman of County Trust Co. (Manhattan), a post created following the suicide of his longtime friend James J. Riordan (TIME, Nov. 18) Elected. Vice President George Willard Smith of New England Mutual Life Insurance Co.; to the company's presidency, left...
Four other Cardinals were named by Pope Pius XI last week to fill some of the 13 vacancies in the Sacred College: Mgr. Emanuel Gonzales Cerejeira, to be Patriarch of Lisbon; Mgr. Luigi Lavitrano, to be Archbishop of Palermo; Mgr. Carlo Minoretti, to be Archbishop of Genoa; Mgr. Joseph MacCrory to be Primate of Ireland...
Resigned. Alfred Emanuel Smith, Manhattan realtor; from the directorate of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Reason: "I did not think it ethical to be director of the Metropolitan and at the same time be head of a real-estate company [Empire State Inc.] which was applying for a large loan from the Metropolitan Life with which to erect a building" [WaldorfAstoria building, Manhattan...