Word: hess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grown fast. First winter there were 87 guarantors. Now there are 1,600. First concerts had programs which were not too difficult to play, easy to digest. Conductor Kindler has waxed bolder as his audiences waxed larger, plans for this season a rich Brahms festival with Pianist Myra Hess...
Score Harvard 0, Andover 0. Referee--W. R. Higgins. Umpire--A. V. Regan. Linesman -- R. Kennedy. Field Judge--S. S. Spellman. Time--Four 12 minute periods. HARVARD DARTMOUTH Williams, g. g., Haley Brodley, r.f. r.f., Bagg Sheridan, l.f. l.f., MacDonald Brown, r.h. r.h., Hess Lewis, c.h. (Jacobson) c.h., Treadway Phillips, l.h. l.h., seeley Witkin, r.o. (Macneil) r.o., Balley Roosevelt, r.i. r.i., Daley Johanson, c. c., Britton Hammond, l.i. (Johnson) l.i., Salom Sinnott, l.o. (Manning) l.o. Ward...
...Shipler called Tsar Will Hays a "window-dresser" and "office boy'' in 1929, later smoked out the fact that on the Hays payroll were two employes of the Federal Council of Churches. In November 1931 The Churchman editorialized as follows: "Will H. Hays, Adolph Zukor, Gabriel Hess, Charles C. Pettijohn and numbers of other individuals and film-producers have been indicted in the Province of Ontario for conspiring to prevent competition in that portion of Canada. This is a criminal prosecution, the results of which can only be moral, as the gentlemen are not likely to place themselves...
...Reports, cinema trade paper. Actually, the persons mentioned had not been indicted in Ontario but merely mentioned in an indictment brought against others. Harrison's Reports and The Churchman, which promptly published a retraction when it discovered its bad blunder, were sued for libel by Gabriel Hess, general counsel for the Hays organization. From the cinema paper this spring Mr. Hess won damages for $5,200. Last month a Supreme Court jury in Manhattan found Dr. Shipler and his fortnightly jointly guilty of libel, assessed them $10,000 for punitive damages, $200 for actual damages to Lawyer Hess...
...Sundays ago Rev. Dr. John Hess McComb, broad-shouldered 36-year-old bachelor, mounted the pulpit of Manhattan's Broadway Presbyterian Church to preach on "Christ and Him Crucified." He was well aware that this and subsequent sermons would be worth exactly $77,296 to his new church, which had called him from Forest Park Presbyterian in Baltimore. That sum was bequeathed to Broadway Church by its longtime Fundamentalist pastor, Rev. Dr. Walter Duncan Buchanan, who died last year, aged 74, worth $1,086,576 which he had largely acquired by marrying into...