Word: horowitz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louis Jay Horowitz, board chairman of Thompson-Starrett Co Sc.D...
...felt thirsty he turned his back on the audience, took a drink. Soprano Rosa Ponselle never sings without the little silver cross she wore when she made her Metropolitan Opera debut. Pianist Ernest Schelling keeps in his waistcoat pocket a four-leaf clover pressed between glass. Pianist Vladimir Horowitz always has a picture of Liszt in the artists' room, Violinist Yehndi Menuhin a bronze head of Toscanini. Pianist José Iturbl goes to every concert with an apple and a clean collar. During intermission he eats the apple and changes his collar. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett wears a comical silver rabbit when...
...idea of a new and modern Waldorf-Astoria is credited to the mind of Louis J. Horowitz, chairman of Thompson-Starrett Co., Inc., builders. The present board of directors includes nine men who can be identified with Thompson-Starrett. Among them is Charles Hayden of Hayden, Stone & Co., one of the firms that sold the Waldorf's bond issue. It was he who drove the first rivet (gold) and troweled the final stone. Also on the directorate is tall, aloof Lucius Boomer, 52, president of Waldorf-Astoria Corp. Mr. Boomer is an oldtime hotel man with wide experience...
George Gore '34, F. R. Haigh '33, C. M. Hardenburg '33, Kempton Harrison '32, W. H. Horowitz '34, A. R. Hyde '34, S. T. King '34, E. B. Lee, Jr. '34, S. W. Manning '34, F. G. McLarty GB, T. I. Moran '32, J. M. Morse '34, J. L. Noyes...
...parallel in the last great Tammany scandal. In 1912, the year before Boss Murphy had Governor Sulzer impeached, a gambler named Herman Rosenthal was killed on the eve of his giving damaging evidence against venal policemen. Within four months Police Lieutenant Charles Becker, "Lefty Louis" Rosenberg, "Gyp the Blood" Horowitz, "Whitey" Lewis and "Dago Frank" Ciro-fici were sentenced to death for the murder. The reaction to this affair gave the State a Reform Governor (Charles S. Whitman), the city a Reform Mayor (John Purroy Mitchel). Last week there was as yet no indictment in the three-week-old Bischoff...