Word: gabriels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such facts are pleasing to seamy-faced Dr. Gabriel Davidson, who last week rendered his 30th annual report as general manager of the Jewish Agricultural Society. Established in 1900, the Society is still backed by a fund set up by Baron Maurice de Hirsch (1831-96), the great German Jewish philanthropist who spent millions trying to improve the lot of European Jews, to get them to emigrate from their ghettos. In 1900 there were 200 Jewish farmers in the U. S. Today, although many Americans have never seen any Jewish farmers, there are nearly 100,000, many of whom have...
...Died. Gabriele d'Annunzio ("The Archangel Gabriel"), 74, great Italian poet, patriot, lover, soldier and mystic; of a brain hemorrhage; at his fortified Villa Vittoriale on Lake Garda. He lost an eye as a war-time aviator, created an international crisis after the Armistice by seizing the Austrian seaport of Fiume, which he held for four months. Supposedly a great & good friend of Benito Mussolini, who made him Prince of Montenevoso and President of the Royal Academy, bald, brooding d'Annunzio lived as a virtual prisoner, year ago melodramatically announced that he planned to dissolve himself in acid...
...Rogers exhibit attempts to trace the development of his art from his first decoration of a poem, that of Charles Stuart Pratt's "Daniel Gabriel Rossetti," up to the gigantic two-volume edition of the Oxford Lectern Bible which appeared in 1935. The use of different type faces characterize Rogers' fine editions and along with examples of his work, his reason for using the particular design is given. Among the varieties of type is found his own widely known Centaur...
Mlle, Boulanger will be the guest of honor at the Friday and Saturday concerts of the Boston Symphony this week, as she conducts the "Requiem" of Gabriel Faure and plays the organ part in Saint-Saens' C minor Symphony. In the performance of the "Requiem," the Orchestra will be assisted by the Bach Cantata Club and the following soloists: Gisela Peyron, soprano; Hugues Cuenod, tenor; and Doda Conrad, baritone...
...born in Navarre, the province of General Franco's best Spanish fighters, the ardently royalist Carlist monarchists. Pozas' brother, a Rightist officer, was reported killed in the same plane crash with Franco's right-hand man, famed General Emilio Mola (TIME, June 14). A cousin, General Gabriel Pozas, is also fighting in the Rightist ranks. Leftist Sebastian Pozas has never concealed his disgust at Anarchists and other Leftist terrorists, did his best to suppress Leftist murder squads in Madrid in the earliest, bloodiest days of the war. In Morocco twelve years ago he and Francisco Franco were...