Word: rolande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brisk business last week selling lapel pins enameled or embossed with foreign flags. In many cases the pins doubtless worked, saved their wearers from instant Nazi assault for failure to salute passing Storm Troop banners. But one day last week in the smoky Ruhr metropolis of Dusseldorf, inoffensive Roland Velz, a U. S. citizen and superintendent of a group of Germany's Woolworth stores, went walking, pinless, with his wife. Cheering Dusseldorfers stood massed along the curbstone six deep as a Storm Battalion marched past, grim-faced with blaring horns and throbbing drums. Mr. & Mrs. Velz, as they edged...
Died. Dr. Henry Suzzallo, 58, president of the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching; of heart disease; in Seattle. Son of Italian immigrants, he became president of University of Washington in 1915, was ousted eleven years later in a celebrated clash with Governor Roland Hartley who. resenting an old difference, also disliked Dr. Suzzallo's urbane way of wheedling fat appropriations from legislatures (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). Died. Thomas Price, 59, retired railroad man, philanthropist, animal lover; when he was fired on from ambush while riding with two companions (both of whom were wounded), on the 1,200-acre...
...Would be prognosticators of screen stars should take all interest in Elizabeth Allen: also is attractive, acts with little effort and speaks her lines with assurance so that the words are audible and pronounced correctly. This latter quality is a definite asset. The supporting cast is excellent, especially Mary Roland who is as boisterous as a banker's wife should...
...normal way. Officers of Fierce-Arrow were chagrined, however, to have their pseudo-parent in receivership. Last week President Arthur J. Chanter of Fierce-Arrow announced that with the backing of George Franklin Rand, head of the Marine Midland group of banks, Jacob Frederick Schoellkopf, Seymour H. Knox and Roland Lord O'Brian, Studebaker's Fierce-Arrow holdings had been bought cut. Fierce-Arrow had a net profit of $4,770 for the second quarter of 1933 compared to a loss of $878,800 for the same period a year ago. Price paid was $1,000,000 cash...
Stifled by flat racing until 1926 was its country cousin, harness racing. Then William Neal Reynolds, 70, board chairman of Reynolds Tobacco Co., Manhattan Socialite E. Roland Harriman, Track Owner William Henry Cane of Goshen. N.Y. and John L. Dodge organized the Trotting Horse Club to revive a country gentleman's sport they feared was dying. For 53 summers the trotting descendants of the great U.S. trotter Hambletonian 10, sire of the 1850's, had pounded around the dirt tracks of the Grand Circuit: now bounded by Cleveland, Toledo, Salem, N.H., Goshen, N.Y., Springfield, Ill., Syracuse, N.Y., Indianapolis...