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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Viewing these warlike moves, fearing lest some might think his company endangered, Matchmaker Kreuger last week spoke sharply, scornfully. Said he, through the Swedish International Press Bureau: "The Japanese Trust is our good friend. The Chinese syndicates do not exist. Russian matches are not good enough to compete with us in European markets...
...income of $13,038,000, first nine months of 1928. Its president, Roy Everett Tomlinson, has been with the company since 1903. He succeeded Founder Adolphus Williamson Green to the presidency in 1917. He is 51, looks younger, and is so sincerely publicity-shy that even his friend Bruce Barton, famed advertising man, author and interviewer, cannot get a story from...
Most glittering and ceremonious of festivals was the last Russian coronation, May, 1896. Each in her gilded coach, two empresses followed in slow procession, the first, Dowager Empress Marie, to be greeted with huzzahs of adoration; and the second, Alexandra, with a sudden silence, variously interpreted. Baroness Buxhoeveden, friend and lady-in-waiting to the last empress, says the crowds were struck dumb with holy awe. But Princess Radziwill, member of the St. Petersburg aristocracy Alexandra failed to please, calls the dumbness "a solemn, ominous silence . . . majestic absence of emotion on the part of the multitude...
...Concerto had its premiere in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall with Walter Damrosch and his New York Symphony. The third came last week. This time the orchestra was the Philharmonic-Symphony, the composition An American in Paris. It was a picture with sound effects. Deems Taylor, Gershwin's friend, summarized the scenario...
...there he stops again, this time for an Anise de Lozo and following effects are appropriately blurred. A solo violin suggestive of charming broken English is first to clear away the haze. There comes a swift transition and Gershwin has the blues, bad blues, until he meets a friend, starts off again jauntily to a final noisy walking theme that foretells an hilarious evening...