Word: hoffmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Studebaker's position is complicated by a receivership growing out of a legal snarl in its attempt to acquire White Motor (trucks). Reorganization plans are nearly complete. Meanwhile, the company has gained ground under the three able receivers, Harold S. Vance, Paul Gray Hoffman and Ashton G. Bean. When once again her own mistress, Studebaker could listen to honorable proposals...
...General von Prittwitz' staff was a brilliant Lieut.-Colonel named Max Hoffman. When the new commander arrived from Hanover, Col. Hoffman explained to Hindenburg and Ludendorff a supremely bold plan of counterattack which they proceeded to make their own. In Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War Col. Hoffman had seen the appalling lengths to which Tsarist inefficiency could go. He was able to believe and convince Ludendorff that the Russian wireless which kept flashing to St. Petersburg the intended moves of Generals Samsonov and Rennekampf "in clear" was not attempting to deceive the enemy, as other German generals thought...
Common Sense, loaned to her Honolulu Ad Club crew after a collision had wrecked their own ship, was the smallest boat in the fleet-27 ft. over all. Biggest was Fandango, C. E. Hoffman's 85-ft. auxiliary schooner. In his crew on Manuiwa, Harold G. Dillingham had famed old swimmer Duke Puo Kahanamoku. who took up sailing two years ago. A Hawaiian prince named David Kawanakoa was in the afterguard of the 48-ft. yawl Dolphin. Youngest sailor was Cinemactor Billy Butts, 14, on Naitamba. Hiram T. Horton. retired Chicago steel tycoon, was aboard the Sift, ketch Vileehi...
...rounds. After 19 easy victories, Baer fought Frankie Campbell in San Francisco, knocked him out in the fifth round. Campbell failed to recover consciousness, died the next day. Baer was suspended for a year. When he returned to the ring, he had a new manager, Ancil Hoffman, and the reputation of being the hardest hitter since Jack Dempsey. After a year in which he lost fights to Ernie Schaaf, Tommy Loughran, Johnny Risko and Paulino Uzcudun he began to justify that reputation. In a return fight with Ernie Schaaf, he gave his opponent a terrific drubbing, knocked him unconscious...
That education should take for its purpose the development of a critical faculty in the student through the use of books is the dominating theme of Mr. Hoffman's speech. "It is the function of education to make the mind more capable of penetrating judgment. If actuality is avoided and so not understood by the academic erudite, the very sphere in which he lives loses significance; his world becomes impotable and unsubstantial...