Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years the Metropolitan Opera Com pany has talked of a new opera house. So, but for a lesser time, has the Chicago Civic Opera Company. In Manhattan, however, Chairman Otto H. Kahn of the Metropolitan directors was thwarted in his choice of site, whereas in Chicago, President Samuel Insull let nothing interfere. In consequence when the Chicago opera ended its home season last week, it ended also its residence in the Auditorium which 40 years ago was dedicated by President Benjamin Harrison and Vice President Levi P. Morton, with incidental music by Adelina Patti. Romeo et Juliet had been...
This Coolidge appointment last July had roused Senator Norris and other anti-power-trust people to a high pitch of in dignation. For Mr. West once served as lawyer to Samuel Insull, than whom there is no mightier powerman. Indeed, just before his appointment Mr. West sold for $118,000 certain Insull securities which he had acquired for $67,000. Mr. West took the position that his Insull connection was a thing of the past, but, even so, promised to withdraw from any matter affecting Insull interests. To Senator Norris and his fellow "Progressives," however, the adequate control of public...
...Debated and confirmed the appointment of Roy Owen West as Secretary of the Interior. It was recalled that Secretary West was once attorney to Samuel Insull, once held stock in the Insull interests (TIME, Dec. 17). This personal participation in power transactions had been urged against Mr. West's fitness to be Secretary of the Interior, to serve on the Water Power Commission...
Lily Damita is 24 and a brown-eyed blonde, famed in Paris as a ballet dancer, in Germany as a cinemactress, in Spain as one of those received by King Alfonso. U. S. Cinemagnate Samuel Goldwyn spotted her in Berlin and recently brought her to Hollywood...
...class of 1929 will graduate a hundred years after one of the most famous of Harvard classes. To the class of 1829 belonged--to mention only a few names--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Samuel F. Smith, and James Freeman Clarke. Would it not be appropriate for the class of 1929 to hold, on some date before graduation, or coincident with graduation, a commemoration meeting, at which speakers should tell of Harvard one hundred years ago, and the lives and work of some members of the class of 1829? R. W. Coues...