Word: hertz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Southampton, where the Queen Mary was berthed last week, her synagog was quietly consecrated by Very Rev. Joseph Herman Hertz, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire. Bearded Rabbi Hertz gazed appreciatively at the handsome seagoing synagog, complete with Shulcran (reading desk). Holy Ark containing the Torah (scroll of Hebrew law) and everlasting lamp. Then he made a little speech pointing out that this was the first time a synagog had ever been included in the original plans of a ship. France's Normandie recently added a synagog seating 48 to take care of Jewish...
...wrote The Crisis and Some Ways Out (1931), other economic books and articles. William J. Hammerslough is head of the firm's investment advisory service. Monroe Gutman is the statistician and analyzer of corporate statements. To this group of conservative, capable, quiet bankers in 1934 went John Daniel Hertz, Chicagoan who collects race horses rather than Madonnas, who is a businessman, not a banker, who has been unsuccessful in business only in his two attempts to retire from it. Born in Austria, arriving in the U. S. at 4, he grew up to write sports for a Chicago newspaper...
...came back from his first retirement to handle finances of Paramount Publix. He slashed costs, reduced rentals, made executives turn in expense accounts. But he cut off so many heads and stepped on so many toes that in 1933 he resigned, reputedly over the question of John Hertz authority versus Adolph Zukor authority. The second retirement also failed to take, and in January 1934 he became a Lehman partner...
Heavy Neon. Isotopes are forms of the same element having different atomic weights. Most famed isotope is "heavy hydrogen" for which Columbia's Harold Clayton Urey won last year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Dr. Gustav Hertz of Berlin's Siemens Engineering Works told how he extracted 98% pure ''heavy neon" (atomic weight 22) from ordinary neon (atomic weight 20). The separation, accomplished with the help of mercury in a long series of connected flasks, was so ingenious that Dr. Hertz's description of it was heartily clapped, and when he had finished...
...bald, tangle-bearded Alfred Hertz and the San Francisco Symphony opened the tenth annual summer concerts in the Woodland Theatre at Hillsborough, Calif. These concerts are the intense concern of rich Mrs. Leonora Wood Armsby, friend of many a famed musician. From her experience as patron-director of the concerts, Mrs. Armsby has written a book. Musicians Talk in which she frequently refers to visitors at her home-Gabrilowitsch, Hertz, Tibbett, Molinari, Walter, Coates- as "the celebrities." This summer's Hillsborough celebrities: Richard Lert, Basil Cameron, Jose Iturbi...