Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stoutly opposed was the great, bass-voiced Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise of Manhattan. While he is inclined to favor all-Jewish union, he regards the present Zionist leadership as weak, inadequate. Also opposed was the revisionist group, which is dissatisfied with the powerful conduct of the Zionist cause...
Wheat. President Hoover completed his Federal Farm Board by "drafting" as its wheat member Samuel Roy McKelvie, Republican, Methodist, Mason, Odd Fellow, Elk, onetime (1919-23) Governor of Nebraska, where he is still known as a "political farmer." No wheat-grower, he publishes the Nebraska Farmer through which he preaches his agricultural gospel: no equalization fee; no debenture; the farmer must help himself. Wheat growers had rowed so long among themselves over a representative on the Hoover board that the President, impatient, picked Mr. McKelvie as his own compromise. Aged 48 and conservative. Mr. McKelvie anticipated that the reduction...
When newly-elected, oldish President Samuel Matthews Vauclain of Philadelphia's gigantic Baldwin Locomotive Works sent $6,965,000 worth of locomotives on credit in July 1919, to the War-torn infant Republic of Poland, his board of directors thought keen level-headed "Sam" Vauclain had forsaken business for his favorite role of philanthropist. They worried. All Europe was financially unbalanced by post War deflation. Poland was still at desperate grips with the Red Army of new Bolshevik Russia. Furthermore, the Baldwin Locomotive Works was at the dangerous stage of turning from Wartime manufactures, productive...
...high cost of opera in Chicago was cheerfully announced last week, as annually, by Samuel Insull, president of the Chicago Civic Opera's board of trustees. The 1928-29 deficit was $528,356, but with 500 more guarantors than before, the amount each paid was relatively small. Next year will be Chicago's banner opera year, beginning in a great new opera house on Wacker Drive, with an imposing list of singers and conductors engaged and re-engaged for the season...
...orphanage. Rather stiffly they sat there in the hot sun, looking with awe at the judges who sat facing them solemnly, and who, by whispers, were soon identified as Thomas Alva Edison himself, Henry Ford, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Dr. Lewis Perry, headmaster of Philips Exeter, George Eastman, and Dr. Samuel Wesley Stratton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...