Word: hertz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco Symphony used to have a 24-week season under solid old Alfred Hertz. Now it plays for ten weeks and many of its best musicians have taken safer jobs with other orchestras. The San Francisco Opera Company has been held up since Depression as a model to every opera-giving city in the U. S. It has had world-famed singers, this year Lucrezia, Bori, Claudia Muzio, Giovanni Martinelli, Ezio Pinza, Gertrude Kappel, Cyrena Van Gordon, Lawrence Tibbett. It has its own ballet, expertly trained by Adolph Bolm. It has usually managed to pay its way although this year...
Leona Jane Ettlinger, elder daughter of Sportsman John Daniel Hertz, founder of Yellow Cab Co., returned from a walk with her father in Manhattan's Central Park, found that she had lost a $70,000 necklace containing 77 pearls, four emeralds, a large diamond...
...slow-healing love affair drove him to Siberia, where he shot an ovis nivicula (mountain sheep), and a new species later named in his honor ovis cliftoni. He was stabbed by a drunken Cossack servant, rested a while at Verkhoyansk, coldest spot on earth. A fellow-traveller, Scientist Hertz, sent him some frozen flesh of a mammoth he had found. Talbot "ate it thoughtfully, for was it not about 8,000 years...
...Chicago home by announcing: "The gangsters told me that they had a list of men they were going to take and that every one of them would pay." Instantly local and state police guards were thrown around the homes of 40 rich Chicagoans, among them: Arthur Cutten, John D. Hertz. President Warren Wright of Calumet Baking Powder Co., Otto W. Lehman (former owner of The Fair department store). The names of the other 36 marked men were withheld by police. Politicians. Beer drenched and politics complicated another major kidnapping of the week. For four days the relatives of John...
...Francisco, the Summer Symphony was ready to open its eighth summer season with eight weekly concerts, the first under Conductor Henry Hadley and others under guest conductors including Richard Lert, Alfred Hertz, Fritz Reiner, Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Another development near San Francisco was the organization, just across the Golden Gate from the city, of the Marin County Musical Chest, financed by subscriptions averaging 25? from members of Marin County's mixed population of esthetes and Portuguese dairy farmers...