Word: hertz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shall become a citizen of your country. I do not wish to be known as a Wagnerian conductor, as I love the operas of all nations." Month later, stepping into the Metropolitan's orchestra pit recently vacated by Arturo Toscanini and his bald, black-bearded co-worker Alfred Hertz, Artur Bodanzky shook his baton at four hours of Wagner's Götterdämmerung. Critics were impressed. Bodanzky stayed, became a U. S. citizen and a permanent conductor at the Metropolitan. But he got few chances to conduct anything but Wagnerian opera...
...algebra began to clear a little. To Byrne's job the Governor appointed Neils Hertz. One hour and 15 minutes after Hertz had been sworn in, the three-judge hearing on the rebel jurors' charges was dismissed, on Hertz' motion. The argument: if Byrne is out, why investigate him? After months of work, the jurors were getting close to what may be Louisiana's highest-smelling corruption, the alleged "tax racket," whereby citizens and corporations agreed with tax officials on luscious tax reductions, with the savings split both ways. To terminate the hearing on Byrne...
...Governor James Putnam Goodrich; Madame Secretary of Labor Perkins; Mrs. Ogden Reid of the New York Herald Tribune; Writers Stuart Chase, John Gunther and Louis Adamic, Editor Freda Kirchwey of the Nation; Federal Judge Thomas D. Thacher, one time President of the New York City Bar Association; Banker John Hertz Sr. of Lehman Bros.; President Samuel Zemurray of United Fruit ; President Floyd Bostwick Odium of Atlas Corp., monster investment trust in which Alex Gumberg was a sort of minister without portfolio...
...when the airline business suddenly looked good, Partner John D. Hertz (Yellow Cab Co.) of Lehman Bros, joined with Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp. to purchase 81,204 shares of T. W. A. from General Motors at some $14.50 a share. This 13% interest gave them operating control. Next year T. W. A. made $205,000 and its stockclimbed to $27.50. But in 1937 T.W.A. lost $959,000, in 1938 $773,000. Its stock dropped to $4, was last week at $8 when Lehman Bros, announced with an audible sigh of relief that it had sold out to Jack...
...chief operating handicaps have been its poor airmail contract and the lack of feeders for its slim cross-country line. The new Civil Aeronautics Authority has partly remedied the first by awarding T. W. A. $400,000 extra mail compensation two months ago and increased further compensation. John Hertz tried to remedy the second last year by unsuccessfully bidding for Eastern Air Lines (TIME, March...