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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press, the University may have to appeal someday to the good sense of the public. Radio advertising will be the proper medium, and directed by professionals it will not fail to have a profound effect. Until that day comes, amateur publicists should refrain from further imposing Harvard's well-known superiority on an already resentful public...
Deems Taylor: Through the Looking Glass (Columbia Symphony, Howard Barlow conducting; Columbia: 8 sides). A well-known, light, agreeable suite by the most successful of contemporary U. S. highbrow composers. U. S.-born Conductor Barlow makes his phonographic bow, does an excellent...
Brahms Song Society, Volume I (Alexander Kipnis, bass, Gerald Moore, pianist; Victor: 12 sides). Fourteen of Brahms's best-known Lieder, including the Vier ernste Gesänge, sung by an acknowledged master...
...with Cleveland Banker Cyrus Eaton and Oil Tycoon Edgar B. Davis, formed Ohio Goodyear Securities Co., a personal holding company, one of whose assets was a big block of Goodyear Tire & Rubber common. Cyrus Eaton presently took this Goodyear stock and put it in a new corporation known as Goodyear Shares, Inc., in which F. A. had an equity. In 1930, spotting trouble ahead for Goodyear, he swapped this equity for 64,554 shares of U. S. Rubber Co. common. Bulk of this latter stock, which was charged off to him at $18 a share, next found...
...zealously religious. His father was both an executive in the family glass factory, and a famed Quaker revivalist, as successful on manorial lawns in England (until he excited too much ecstasy in female converts) as in suburban camp meetings. His mother, an even more effective stirrer-upper, became known as "the Angel of the Churches...