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...years the history of the Cleveland Orchestra was chiefly made by three people: John Long Severance, its chief patron; Mrs. Adella Prentiss Hughes, its manager, who first convinced Cleveland that it wanted an orchestra; and Con ductor Nikolai Sokoloff who assembled the musicians, trained them from scratch. Peak of the first 15 years came in 1931 when John Severance gave the Orchestra a $2,500,000-home of its own. Most of his oil & steel fortune was lost not long after that. He could no longer go on contributing largely to the Orchestra's support. The triumvirate...
...notorious Equitable Bus franchise deal, a flagrant piece of grafting which did more than anything else to oust Mayor Walker (TIME, June 6, 1932), McKee did later vote for the franchise to be granted. "Actions," taunted Candidate LaGuardia, "speak louder than words." At this point Samuel Seabury, patron saint of Fusion, chimed in: "They're mak-ing a primary out of an election. Fusion nominated a ticket so good and so strong that its mere nominations caused the Curry machine to crumble and broke Tammany's back. What happened then? They changed the name of the Tammany candidate...
Died. Charles Edwin Thompson, 63, Cleveland motor parts manufacturer and aviation patron, president of Thompson Products Inc., a founder and first president of Glenn L. Martin Co. (bombing planes); after a paralytic stroke; in Washington. Since 1930 the Thompson Trophy race for landplanes which he sponsored has been No. 1 event of the National Air Races...
...actual backbone of the Labour party, to universal strike in the event of war, will soon be steered by him into Parliament. This will mark the first real test of Labour's genuineness, and its success would imply victory, however belated, of one of the great principles of its patron saints. Ramsay MacDonald, professional politician that he is, always shied away when Labour's concretion was mentioned; the trade union heads themselves were weakly unresolved; Bernard Shaw was unable, and Sidney Webb unwilling to accomplish it. The forces of inertia with in the party and the forces of opposition without...
...pecuniary anxiety. Under the terms of his will Dr. Loeb has provided a sum of $300,000 (*60,000 at par) to endow an institution to be called the Loeb Classical Library Foundation to carry on the noble work of which he was the originator and most generous patron. The foundation is to be placed under the supervision of three trustees, and when the classical library has been completed the income of the endowment is to be devoted to the encouragement of archaeology and classical studies without distinction as to sex, race, nationality, colour, or creed. Through this splendid benefaction...