Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Warburg family derives its name from Warburg, a town in Westphalia, where Warburgs lived as long ago as 1400. At some time during the Sixteenth Century the family moved to Hamburg. Here, in 1798, was founded M. M. Warburg & Co. Since the founding of the Warburg firm-130 years ago-a son of the Warburg family has always headed the House of Warburg; no person not a Warburg has ever reached a dominant position. Comparatively, the Morgans are parvenus...
...with the U. S. branch of the Warburg family, however, that the U. S. financial world is most concerned. For it was Paul M. Warburg who organized the International Acceptance Bank in 1921. Born in Hamburg in 1868, Paul M. Warburg entered a Hamburg export house at 18, entered the House of Warburg at 20. Followed experience in English, in French banking houses, a world tour, a return to Hamburg, and, in 1896, membership in the Warburg firm. In 1894 Mr. Warburg had married Nina, daughter of Solomon Loeb of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. In 1902 he came to live...
Sophisticates of smart Berlin and worldly Hamburg have witnessed and applauded, during the past month, a modernist farce in which an actor programmed as God waddles upon the stage in plus fours, shakes cocktails for his cackling crony St. Peter, and holds hands upon a sofa with Mary Magdalene...
...then she married Ernst Heink and a burden of debts, lost her job. Then came four children, dark days. Heink deserted her. The sheriff took everything but a bed, three chairs, a stove, the children. Finally they had to be sent to her parents. Then came engagements in Berlin, Hamburg. A temperamental contralto balked and Heink got big roles, made them bigger. She married Paul Schumann, an actor. Together in 1898 they came to the U. S. In Chicago a month before another baby, she made her debut in Lohengrin. The baby was born in Manhattan-George Washington Schumann...
...Gustav Pauli, Director of the Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, will lecture in German on "The Impressionists, Liebermann, Slevogt, Corinth" at 1.30 o'clock on Wednesday in the Large Lecture Hall of the Fogg Art Museum...