Word: josephson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Dr. Emanuel M. (for euphony) Josephson, Manhattan eye & ear specialist, announced in Science that he had at last ascertained the true cause of glaucoma and could cure it with a drug...
...total of 163 ballots cast for the candidates, three were elected. The results are as follows, with an asterisk beside the names of the winners: *Edward S. Josephson '36 111 *Sigmund Werner '36 80 *Forrest T. Foss '37 67 Irving Rosenbloom...
...ROBBER BARONS-Matthew Josephson- Harcourt, Brace ($3). The roots of any family tree, of any aristocracy, are planted in the dirt. But the humble or scandalous beginnings of an old family, a settled society, are well covered. Not so the great names of U. S. plutocracy, whose mightiest growths are a matter of two or three generations, their naked progress still quite perceptible to the curious eye. And one by one these financial giants have had their share of homage and vituperation. Author Josephson comes neither to bury nor praise them; as observer of U. S. history, he thinks...
...synonymous with libraries, once asked his friend, Publisher Frank Doubleday, how much he had made last month. When Doubleday replied that he never knew how he stood until the year's end, Carnegie said firmly, "I'd get out of it!" Greatest of U. S. industrialists, thinks Josephson, was John D. Rockefeller, who believes "the power to make money is a gift of God." As a young man he used to talk to himself at night about his schemes, of which the suave ruthlessness in crushing competition is still a byword in U. S. business. These plutocrats sometimes...
...still a Guggenheimer (TIME. May 9); his Fellowship is renewed this year. Another repeater is moody George Antheil, cacophonous composer. Other winners: Artists Emil Ganso. Louis Bouche and Miguel Covarrubias (who will paint in the Dutch East Indies); Sculptress Gwen Lux; Poets e. e. cummings, Louise Bogan; Biographer Matthew Josephson; Novelists Glenway Wescott. Leonard Ehrlich: Composer Paul Nordoff; Economists Henry Schultz and Charles Frederick Roos; historians, physicists, chemists, biologists...