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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Important Folk. Dr. Walther Simons, onetime (1925) Acting President of the German Reich, onetime (1922-29) President of the German Supreme Court, was introduced as the guest of honor by past-President Silas Hardy Strawn after an organ rendition of "Tannenbaum" and "The Star-Spangled Banner." Dr. Simons compared the relation of the German and U. S. judiciaries to the executive and legislative branches of their governments. Hoped he: that the German Supreme Court would "reach the place in Germany that the Supreme Court holds in the United States...
This glimpse into the early life of the president of his company would have been afforded a stockholder of Kraft Cheese Co. who in 1925 read an article entitled, "A Cheese Business for the Ages," written by James Louis Kraft and printed in the monthly Kraft house-organ, Cheesekraft. If the stockholder had read further, past a reference to "dear old aunt Beckey. She has gone to her reward," he would have come upon President Kraft's prediction for the future: "I do not suppose anyone else ever planned a cheese business to live through the ages . . . after...
...There later was to be staged the feature performance-Inventor Edison working by oil lamp over his old bench, tinkering with his old tools, fabricating a replica of the first incandescent electric lamp, switching on the current, seeing the wires glow yellow, then shambling over to his old reed organ in the corner to play a few tunes. The tinkering was the climax of the celebration of "Light's Golden Jubilee." At a preceding jubilee dinner famed voices lauded the greatest Edison achievement. Owen D. Young was toastmaster. President Hoover spoke pleasantly, briefly. Mr. Ford made appropriate remarks. From...
...Chicago surgeon, led him before the Fellows. First the man rasped in a monotone. Then he began to finger his throat, and inflected words ensued: "After I lost my voice I could not bear it-to be a dummy, to talk with my hands. . . . I used to play the organ and knew how you can force air through a thing and get sounds. . . . There I got my idea. It took lots of practice to learn to talk again. The flesh had to be hardened and trained." Regally gossipy was Florestan Aguilar, Viscount of Casa Aguilar, of Madrid, in Chicago...
This evening Dr. Koussevitsky presents two tried and true numbers, and the first performance of a symphonic poem. The Vivaldi concerto is a number for orchestra with organ, and is of historical interest as the first composition conducted by Dr. Koussevitsky in Boston...