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Enemies of Thomas Bat'a called him a Wartime profiteer. Certainly the marching feet of Kaiser Franz Josef's men wore out millions of Bat'a shoes. After the feet ceased to march and the Austrian Empire collapsed Thomas Bat'a took his profits across the Atlantic, opened a shoe factory at Lynn, Mass, in 1922, learned all the tricks of Fordized technique. When the new Czechoslovakian Republic had been safely launched, Mr. Bat'a moved the machinery of his Lynn factory to Zlin...
...Josef Hofmann, wife of the famed pianist, was looking for a school for her daughter Josefa. She found none that suited. At length she looked at piny, sandy, swank Aiken, S. C. and found it good. There she established a school, named it Fermata. In 1926 Fermata School was taken over by F. A. M. Tabor, owner of Aiken Preparatory School for boys. Principal Tabor moved the school to its present site at Whiskey Road & Gin Lane. He expanded the plant with tennis courts, gymnasium, outdoor swimming pool. A Cambridge man, brother-in-law of Sir John Broderick, onetime commercial...
Prices: $1.50 top ($3 for the final concert). A 175-piece orchestra, each player getting $20 (at previous benefits the fee has been $15). All other services, including management, donated by NBC. A Bach concerto for three pianos executed at one & the same time by Harold Bauer, Ernest Hutcheson, Josef Lhevinne, Ernest Schelling (see p. 32) and two others. Concertos played by Fritz Kreisler and Sergei Rachmaninoff, brought together for the first time at one & the same concert. An all-Tchaikovsky program, with Ossip Gabrilowitsch playing the piano concerto...
Russians pored last week over No. 8 of the magazine Bolshevik, absorbed like eager sponges what Josef Stalin said to German biographer Emil Ludwig (TIME, Jan. 4). Shrewd. Dr. Ludwig has been trying to save most of this conversation for a prospective biography of Stalin. Excerpts from Bolshevik...
...State would own all means of production and private, or "capitalistic," profit would be eliminated. Regrettable is the extreme looseness of meaning which: 1) permits James Ramsay MacDonald to call himself a "Socialist," although he does not strive for State ownership of the means of production; and 2) permits Josef Stalin to be known as a "Communist," although he recently restored to Russian peasants the right of private trade with its inevitable capitalistic profits (TIME...