Word: isidore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Webster was 13, his father left the Conservatory to take the whole family abroad. The boy was placed under the famous Pianist-Teacher Isidor Philipp, first at the American Academy at Fontainebleau, three years later at Paris Conservatory of Music. At 18, he won first prize in the Conservatory's piano competition, is still the only U. S. pianist who can boast that honor...
...Also in Philadelphia last week met six groups of anesthetists. Their gravest concern was a new anesthetic called divinyl ether. Professor Isidor Schwaner Ravdin of the University of Pennsylvania, who used divinyl ether in 2,675 operations, praised this highly volatile liquid because a few deep inhalations cause complete unconsciousness. Recovery is very rapid. Nausea or vomiting rarely occurs after divinyl operations. It is less poisonous than chloroform, more poisonous than ether...
Addressing the American Club of Paris, Ambassador Bullitt paid a tribute to his predecessor, the late Ambassador Jesse Isidor Straus who, as was disclosed in the U. S. fortnight ago (TIME, Oct. 19), cut all charitable bequests out of his will, pointedly observing that "the increased estate taxes upon the estates of decedents are devoted in large part to Governmental social programs." Probably unaware of this, Ambassador Bullitt lauded Ambassador Straus thus : "He was a man of wealth, but knowing what his country needed, he accepted new financial burdens gladly and stood at the opposite pole from those possessors...
...ably few. Unlike most trainers, who hope to enlarge their earnings by wagering on their products, he made it his purpose from the outset to derive a surer if more modest income solely from prizes. By 1929 he had achieved his ends sufficiently to impress a Florida colonel, one Isidor Bieber, who hired him to train his B. B. Stable. Last year Hirsch Jacobs bought the Bieber horses, settled down to work in earnest. Since 1933, the first year he led the list of U. S. trainers, he has saddled 507 winners. They amount to the unheard of proportion...
Board of Tax Appeals a levy of $268,000 made against his estate. More unusual was the protest of Jesse Isidor Straus, the New Deal's Ambassador to France, who died fortnight...