Word: peter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Austrian Composer Franz Peter Schubert died in 1828, it was at the house of his favorite brother, Ferdinand. Affectionate, sociable, improvident, Franz Peter found his life, liberty and pursuit of happiness in the composition of music. Unmarried, and with no house of his own, he lived throughout his working life in lodgings or with friends. At his death, his principal personal effects (inherited by Brother Ferdinand) consisted of one writing desk and, within it, an enormous mass of manuscript music...
Last week on Easter Sunday a canonization ceremony, for which he had been conserving his waning strength, brough aged Pope Pius XI into St. Peter's in Rome for his first public appearance this year. With his doctor hovering nearby the Holy Father sat for two-and-one-half hours on the pontifical throne, looked well, if thin, and spoke clearly. Before him knelt three consistorial lawyers, pleaders for three saints whose visages and deeds the people beheld upon great banners in St. Peter's-Andre Bobola, Polish Jesuit (1592-1657), Giovanni Leonardi Italian founder of a religious...
...Amadeo Peter Giannini of San Francisco sits on top of a great banking pile. His Bank of America has 492 branches in California. Mr. Giannini also controls some 60 other banks and branches in other Western States. His Transamerica Corp., bank holding company now being renovated as an investment trust, controls Occidental Life Insurance Co. of Los Angeles. In June 1936 at a court receiver's sale Occidental bought Federal Reserve Life Insurance Co. of Kansas City and last year acquired Guaranty Life Insurance Co. of Davenport, Iowa. Last month Occidental started negotiating with Sears, Roebuck...
Tomorrow Bill Thomas's Independents, an aggregation of House ball players, faces Adolph Samborski's Yardling team. Woody Woodward is slated to pitch, Bobby Gorham to catch. Others who will play are Peter Pratt, Arthur Page, Ralph Doran, Sam Merrill, Bartow Kelley, John Eaton, and Harris Squibb...
Unemployed and claiming to be broke, Peter F. Reed, onetime vaudevillian, marched into a Los Angeles court, filed suit against his daughter, Marjorie Yvonne (Cinemactress Martha Raye), asked for $50 of her $2,500 a week salary. Maintaining that when his wife divorced him last year she promised that she or her daughter would foot his living expenses, Father Reed complained she had done no such thing. Said Cinemactress Raye: "All I'll say is that my heart isas big as my mouth...