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Such eminent men as Professor Cassel of Sweden and Guido Jung of Italy and Albert Janssen, former Minister of Finance in Belgium, as well as George B. Roberts, Economic Adviser of the National City Bank of New York, and Professor O. M. W. Sprague, who was then representing the Bank of England, participated in the work of the gold delegation and in the making of the report...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, has just received by way of the French embassy the Prix Janssen, the gold medal of the Societe Astronomique de France, which was awarded to him this summer. The Prix Janssen was named for a distinguished French astronomer of the nineteenth century whose outstanding discovery was that of the method of observing solar prominences without total solar eclipses, a contribution of great importance in respect to studies...
...suggestion of Jacob Gould Schurman, provided the money for the building. The names are: Jules S. Bache, George F. Baker, William Gerard Beckers, James Brown, Walter P. Chrysler, Clarence L. Dillon, Julius Forstmann, William Fox, Henry Goldman, W. A. Harriman, Harris Forbes & Co., Henry Heide, George D. Horst, Henry Janssen, Robert Lehman, Nicholas M. Schenck, W. J. (or I; the German capitals are alike) Norton, Gustav Oberlaender, James R. Perkins, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Julius Rosenwald, Samuel Sachs, Mortimer L. Schiff, Henry Schniewind Jr., Paul C. Schnitzler. Richard Schuster, W. B. Scott, James Speyer, Charles P. Taft, Ferdinand Thun, Elisha...
...August Janssen, the Dutch restaurateur who owes much of his fame to the slogan "Janssen Wants to See You,'' has had two great disappointments in his profitable life. One came with Prohibition when the chimes which accompanied the broaching of a cask of beer were stilled. The other was when his son Werner refused his offer of $250,000 to give up a musical career. When Werner Janssen left Dartmouth he took a $3-a-night job playing the piano in Leo Reisman's band in Boston. He drifted to Manhattan, conducted in cinemansions, wrote popular tunes...
...Europe this winter young Werner Janssen has made a name as conductor and composer. But last week he learned that even a determined young musician cannot always rule his own actions. Bristling with energy he arrived in Berlin to conduct Rubin Goldmark's Gettysburg Requiem, a symphony by the Russian Borodin and his own Louisiana. Scarcely was he off the train when he was informed that his program had been changed for one of German music. Gettysburg had been banned. Director Lorenz Horber of the Berlin Philharmonic said, "because we are having trouble with the U. S. just...