Word: meyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...future. Very soon the nations on earth will turn to it in thought and feeling and develop such intuitive powers which lead them to harmony." Owner of most of these non-objects, Solomon Guggenheim, celebrated his 76th birthday last week. Fourth of the seven sons of old Meyer Guggenheim, Colorado mining tycoon, he was one of the most active members in developing the Guggenheim copper empire. He is still a director in half-a-dozen mining companies besides holding a partnership in Guggenheim Bros. He has served as board chairman of American Smelting & Refining Co. Many years ago he began...
Watching this year's races, unable to participate because of a recent operation, was Starke Meyer onetime Commodore of the Northwestern Ice Yachting Association, at 45 the uncrowned king of a royal family of ice yacht experimenters. Almost killed when his radical Paula III overturned in 1933, unshipping her mast and smashing her hull down on him, Starke Meyer returned to racing, continued his experimental Paula series through 1935. His four brothers, Arnold, Chris, Henry (eight-time winner of the N. W. I. Y. A. 350-ft. class with his Dorla) and William have aided him. Chiefly to them...
...Brothers Meyer is also credited development of the popular "skeeter" ice boat. When introduced in 1931 on Lake Pewaukee by one Roger Joys of Milwaukee the first skeeter was merely a ten-foot triangular wooden frame supported on three runners, carrying a small sail on a 15-ft. mast. Today it is a sporty, front -steering ice-racing machine with 75-ft. sail area, manageable by a girl, thrilling enough for a man, inexpensive (150-$250). light enough (125 Ib.) to be disassembled and hauled about by auto. While not so fast as such legendary performances as Kittie...
...Meyer Weisgal, who had already put on in Chicago, Manhattan, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Detroit a pageant called The Romance of a People to raise funds for Jewish charity, persisted. He eventually got another $213,000 and Eternal Road rehearsals resumed Nov. 29, 1936. There were three more postponements before the greatest night in a generation for New York's Jews at last arrived. With Sara Delano Roosevelt representing the Gentiles and Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise at the head of his flock, the lights went down...
...skill in effectively sweeping the great crowds and actors over the vast stage. Sam Jaffe as the eternal Jewish cynic, Rosamond Pinchot as Bathsheba, Catherine Carrington as Ruth made themselves recognizable among the mobs of fellow-actors. Heard of but not recognized by many was pretty Florence Meyer, Backer Meyer's daughter, as an Egyptian princess, a fiend, a depraved woman...