Word: hoffmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better than average example of the craze. Instead of dealing with an era from the point of view of the country at large, this picture portrays the brewing industry from the succulent pre-war days to the frothy present, as exemplified by experiences of the Hoffman family, master brewers...
There are many opportunities for over-sentimentality but fortunately director Ralph Murphy has charted the course of his feamy schooner around these perils. The plot is somewhat standard: Papa Hoffman, Americanized German, whose name has for years been synonymous with the best of beer, sends his sons to France to fight the Fatherland. During their absence the Volsteadian debacle closes his lawful business and establishes the lucrative blind pig and speakeasy. Conflict between his remaining son, who now manufactures near beer, "the nearest we will ever got to beer," and Nails, his erst-while truck driver, and present racket king...
...members of the Committee selected yesterday are: Thomas Dennie Boardman of Manchester, Wilton Snowden Burton of Bronxville, New York, Alexander Cochrane Cusing of New York City, Donald Frederick Cutler, Jr., of Dover, John Francis Ducey, Jr., of Boston, George Wilfred Harris of West Roxbury, Howard Allen Hoffman of Newark, New Jersey, Alvin Josephy, Jr., of New York City, Francis Keyes of North Haverhill, New Hampshire, William Davis Locke of Concord, Deric Nusbaum of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Charles Eliot Pierce of Milton, Edwin Howard Baker Pratt of Glen Cove, New York, Gardner Edward Prouty, Jr., of Littleton, Joseph Foster Robbins...
...Paul Hoffman '32 will have his first novel published by Harpers in September...
...colds, the Senators in Washington, Mrs. Rockefeller in, Ormond Beach, Fla.; Pennsylvania's Senator Davis and Lady Louis Mountbatten, after appendicitis operations, in Pittsburgh and Paris; General Pershing, of a throat infection, in Tucson, Ariz.; Francis Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, and Helen ("Boop-oop-a-doop") Kane Hoffman, of influenza in Saint Leonards, England, and Hamilton, Bermuda; Prizefighter Primo Camera and onetime English Ambassador to the U. S. Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes, of injuries received in automobile accidents, in Bologna, Italy, and Kent, England...