Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Contrary to popular belief," declared a secretary of the Soviet Consulate in Manhattan last week, "there are cows in Russia...
...Juilliard influence was the appointment of Herbert Witherspoon, old-time Metropolitan basso and later a member of the Juilliard teaching staff, as Gatti's successor. General Manager Witherspoon had worn his title for two weeks when he dropped dead of coronary thrombosis. Tenor Edward Johnson, long a popular favorite, stepped immediately into the post. Confronting him were union difficulties, many an important contract, many that had not been signed...
Some of the newcomers were given an opportunity to win their spurs in French and Italian operas, some in the popular-priced auxiliary season demanded by Juilliard. Most smashing popular-priced success was a lively performance of The Bartered Bride in English...
...Giannini's move there were two explanations. His was simply that Bank of Oakland was a good bank with four branches and the best location in the busy East Bay City. It fitted naturally into Transamerica Corp.'s branch-banking setup. San Franciscans had another and more popular explanation: that was the bad blood between Banker Giannini and Arnold John Mount, broad-shouldered, bespectacled head of Bank of Oakland. The purchase was spite work. Snapped Lawrence Mario Giannini, swart, enigmatic heir apparent to his father's banking empire: "Ridiculous nonsense...
...Promoted from the vice presidency to presidency of New York Life Insurance Co. (assets: $2,243,587,000) was Alfred Lawrence Aiken, 66, succeeding popular Thomas Aylette Buckner, 71. A graduate of Yale (1891), Mr. Aiken worked for New York Life for five years before taking a bank job in Boston in 1899. During the War, he was governor of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank, in 1917 resumed his connection with New York Life as a director. In 1924 he left Boston and banking to become a New York Life executive...