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...symphony orchestra Tuesday evenings for Philco; the Los Angeles Philharmonic every Thursday evening over a Pacific Coast network for Standard Oil Co. of California. Of famed individuals scheduled to broadcast this season, many are sponsored by Atwater Kent (Contralto Louise Homer who sang last week, Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, Pianist Josef Hofmann, Violinist Albert Spalding, Sopranos Rosa Ponselle and Rethberg...
Lenin was no Jew, Trotsky (born Bronstein) is but has been exiled. "The present Soviet Dictator, Josef Stalin, is no Jew. The chief of the dread Ogpu or Soviet secret police, Comrade Menzhinsky...
...governments are merely political monopolies. The Soviet State is monopoly incarnate: political, economic, social. If some imp should pop the idea of trying to depress world automobile prices into President Herbert Hoover's head he could not order Fords and Chevrolets sold at $100 apiece. But Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin can do things remarkably like that. To understand this, to gauge the potential power of Red statesmen to work mischief in world markets, was more vital last week than to be scared by lurid rumors of Red grain dumping in Liverpool and Amsterdam, Red speculating for the decline...
...Business is sound in the states, credit is as a whole good, and in spite of the fact that you are now in the negative phase of a long cycle of business history, conditions will pick up in 1931", stated Josef A. Schumpeter, professor of Political Economy at the University of Bonn, who after the war was finance minister of Austria...
...able to develop genius even where it does not exist. Like Auer, he employs simple methods, plays to his pupils a great deal, is at the same time careful not to stifle their individuality. Like Auer his dominant traits are sweetness and a gentle, kindly humor. Like Josef Hofmann, Albert Spalding, Mischa Elman, Alfred Hertz, Pablo Casals, Maria Jeritza and many another famed musician, he is a brilliant chess-player. In San Francisco he used to carry a little chessboard in his pocket. It was no unusual sight to see him take it out on a trolley...