Word: nathans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nathan Phillips Dodge '33 of Milton was elected captain of the Harvard track team for 1933 yesterday afternoon after the annual team picture. He succeeds E. E. Record '32 who has been captain during the past year. Dodge prepared at Milton Academy where he was a member of the track team for three years and of the football team for two years. During his Freshman year he captained the 1933 Freshman team and last year he won his Varsity "H" in the quarter mile race, earning the reputation of being one of the best quarter-milers Harvard...
...Briarcliff Manor, not far from Nyack where lives Oom the Omnipotent, onetime "love cultist," The Groups had an international house party. Glib, bright-eyed Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, "soul surgeon," arrived on the S. S. Aquitania with a party of 22 "experienced" members of The Groups, many of whom had met with him at a house party in Geneva last January (TIME...
From 1926 to 1929 the Minskys ran into palmy days. They advertised their show as the Folies-Bergeres of New York and were proud indeed of their "carriage trade": Otto Kahn. Horace Liveright, Frank Crowninshield. Gilbert Seldes, George Jean Nathan, who probably went to the National Roof less because it was like the Folies-Bergères than because it represented their country's one definite contribution to the theatre...
Milk Man's Son. Last week Nathan Straus Jr., 42, son of the late Charitarian Nathan Straus, assumed leadership for the first time in fund-raising activities of any sort, as chairman of the Greater New York section of the American Palestine campaign. Presiding at the meeting at which Nahum Sokolow also spoke, he said: "I like a difficult job . . . I accept the responsibility of leadership at this hour, not merely by right of name or kinship with any man. but by right of my conviction of the supreme importance of the success of Palestine. . . . The Passover week is near...
...Nathan Straus Sr., who made a fortune in R. H. Macy & Co. and other metropolitan department stores, spent most of his time and money on milk stations and propaganda for promoting pasteurization. His interest in Palestine came comparatively late in life, and all his strictly Jewish benefactions (including the Jerusalem Health Centre) totaled less than the $5,000,000 which the late Julius Rosenwald gave for Jewish colonization in Crimea. Nathan Straus Jr. did not take part in Zionist affairs until comparatively recently. Educated at Heidelberg and Princeton (as a graduate student under Woodrow Wilson), he became a cub reporter...