Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Personages with influence caught Bremen-fever, caught the Bremen too. Personages: U. S. Senator Royal Samuel Copeland; Peter Finley "Mr. Dooley" Dunne; Mr. & Mrs. Gustave A. Heckscher; Soprano Frieda Hempel; Editor George Horace Lorimer of the Saturday Evening Post ("merely...
Several distinguished Jews spoke at last week's meeting, including Chemical Tycoon Lord Melchett and Sir Robert Samuel, famed Liberal. None was more closely attended, however, than orotund Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise of Manhattan, who said: "Theodor Herzl was one of the few men truly epochal . . . because he dared to bid the Jew to be what, for nearly two millenia, he had not dared to be-to be himself, a Jew. . . . Before Herzl came the Jews had been so hurt by the world's ill will that many had denied their own Semitism. Such a denial is infinitely...
...Harvey Samuel Firestone, Tire tycoon, figured in two days' headlines as follows: (first day) HARVEY S. FIRESTONE ILL WITH PNEUMONIA; (second day) FIRESTONE BETTER . . . PNEUMONIA AVERTED...
...Austin represents the first serious foreign attempt at competing with the U. S. motor car. Said Samuel H. Vallance: "We are not proceeding with the theory that there is anything faulty with the American small cars. . . but in size and economy of operation the Austin Seven is in a class by itself...
...Samuel R. Rosoff arrived in Manhattan from Russia for the second time in his life. On his first arrival he was an 11-year-old potato-peeler. Last week he occupied princely staterooms on the Berengaria. In Russia he, a potent Manhattan contractor, turned down a 200-million-dollar subway and waterworks contract for Moscow, because the U. S. does not recognize the Soviets...