Word: nevin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Their approval shall not be necessary in or to validate any decision or management by Nevin," said Rodman Wanamaker 's $100,000,000 will last week (TIME, Mar. 19). "Their" meant seven managing trustees. "Nevin" was William L. Nevin, lately obscure youthful lawyer, now by inheritance merchant princeling. "Nevin" will henceforth manage, irrespective of benefit of experience of seven advisers...
...Student Nevin fulfilled Pennsylvania University's law school requirements at 18. For ten dreadful, discouraging years he "practiced," until accident confronted him with John Wanamaker, the Founder.*Lawyer Nevin was better at real estate than the Founder himself; when the owner died, Lawyer Nevin was made Vice President of everything, all around. Directorships followed, automatically. Wilful-faced, 200 pound, 6 ft. 2 in., firm chinned, wideshouldered Attorney Nevin became master last week of Wanamaker's interests in the U. S. and the world, to wit: Wanamaker's stores in Philadelphia, New York, Paris, Tokyo; A. T. Stewart...
...give a varied program of classical and popular numbers at the Harvard Club of Boston, Sunday evening at 8.15 o'clock. The numbers to be presented are: "Triumph March" Beethoven "Egmont Overture" Beethoven "Fingal's Cave" Mendelssohn "March from 'Aida'" Verdi "Woodland Sketches" MacDowell "Rustle of Spring" Sinding "Narcissus" Nevin...
There are other things, adds Mr. Frank, which symbolize America as much as jazz: Ethelbert Nevin's "The Rosary" is as native as Irving Berlin's "All Alone"; and Harold Bell Wright and the New York Daily News could exist only in this land of our forefathers. But such trifles are ignored by the modernists, even though they are folk art. As Mr. Frank points out, aesthetic acceptance depends on the intrinsic value of art, whether it be folk or fine. If jazz is good it is good because it is jazz, not because it is American. To be pedantic...
North Carolina. This enlightened state was apprised last week of methods obtaining in its Stanly County prison camps. In an Albemarle courtroom scarred Negroes stripped to give evidence that one Nevin C. Cranford had encouraged their labors in his convict chain gang with a loaded, wire-lashed wagon whip. They swore Cranford's spirited whipping, kicking, clubbing and stone-pelting had caused the death of five black convicts, not merely the two for whose decease he had been indicted...