Word: prentiss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...endowment fund raised last spring (TIME, May 6). Feature of the opening concert was the première of Werner Janssen's New Year's Eve in New York, scored for full orchestra and jazz band. Attentive listeners to its ingenious noise were Manager Adella Prentiss Hughes, Mrs. Nikolai Sokolov, Composer Janssen, his mother and sister, all together in a box. In Cincinnati the symphony founded 35 years ago by Mrs. William Howard Taft began its first season under the auspices of the Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts. Now assisting in its support will be a new fund...
...Arthur D. Story until on the last lap, tacking along inshore close to the Cape Ann rocks, it skirmished into the lead to win. The losers, unwilling to give up another day's fishing, conceded to Capt. Manuel Domingos of the Progress the $2,150 prize money, the Prentiss Trophy, one leg on the Davis Trophy. The stalwart, suntanned helmsman of the Progress: Prof. George Owen of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, saltwater friend of the Secretary of the Navy, father of Harvard's famed all-round athlete (George Owen...
When ten-year-olds have birthdays they must have parties. True to its years, then, was the Cleveland Orchestra when last week at home it celebrated the tenth year of its existence, the tenth also under Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff and Manager Adella Prentiss Hughes. There was a birthday concert at the Auditorium with the program which was given on Dec. n, 1918. There was a birthday dance for the musicians and their friends. There was a birthday luncheon for principals and patrons, with wrist watches and eulogies for Conductor Sokoloff and Manager Hughes, and a cake with ten candles. Patron...
Frank Clark of Miami, Fla., for the vacancy left by Edward Prentiss Costigan, resigned, on the Federal Tariff Commission...
...when the Commission's founders provided that of its six members, not more than three should be in the same political party. That provision provided deadlock. The deadlock has persisted during virtually all of the Commission's eleven-year existence. The low-tariff deadlocker has been Edward Prentiss Costigan. Since 1922, the high-tariff deadlocker-and successful champion-has been Chairman Thomas O. Marvin, Boston Republican, against whom Mr. Costigan last week hurled charges and complaints that were six years...