Word: hertz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elliott Roosevelt (second son), struck oil (500 bbl. a day) on the Ed Hughes ranch in Crane County, Tex. which he leased with Elder Brother James, John Daniel Hertz of Yellow Cab Co., Poloist Tommy Hitchcock...
...Angeles Shrine Auditorium, guided the new Hollywood Grand Opera Association through its first presentation, Aïda. Except for the moment when four terrified white horses seemed ready to jump into the orchestra pit, the opera proceeded without a hitch and made San Francisco's grizzled Conductor Alfred Hertz exclaim: "He showed a mastery of musical forces quite unusual at his early age. He has quite a career ahead...
...Bernardino publisher (James A. Guthrie), James Kelley Guthrie early took lessons on the flute, "not because I was particularly interested in it but because it was expected of me." A trip to San Francisco, where he heard Hertz lead the Symphony Orchestra, fanned his interest. At 15 he rounded up 60 professional, amateur and retired musicians, hired 30 more from Los Angeles, to make the San Bernardino Community Orchestra. Two years later he began to lead it. Meantime he was in demand for local theatre orchestras, went on tour playing and conducting for Actress Olga Baclanova. In 1931 he entered...
...eighth running of the Classic was $35,000. That the Arlington Classic will eventually be worth $100,000 and the most celebrated horse race in the world was the proud prospect offered to Chicago last week by the Arlington Park Jockey Club's Founder John Daniel Hertz. Discussing the track's policy and progress, Mr. Hertz announced that since 1929 Arlington Park has repaid all but $700,000 of the $5,000,000 debt it incurred seven years ago. When the $700,000 is written off, Arlington Park, only non-profit race track in the U. S., will...
...year Illinois racing was legalized, by a California promoter named H. D. ("Curly") Brown. It lost money. In 1929 Capone offered to buy the track for $1,500,000. Promoter Brown jumped at the offer. Because the deal might well have meant the end of Illinois horse racing, Mr. Hertz, whose Reigh Count had won the Kentucky Derby in 1928, asked him to call it off. Brown offered to sell the track to Sportsman Hertz for $2,500,000 if he could raise the money in 24 hours. It took Mr. Hertz just 20 minutes to extract...