Word: schwab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cathedral, a pipe chamber big as a master's bedroom and an initial outlay ranging from $15,000 to $100,000 were requirements for owning a house organ. Wilmington's Pierre S. du Pont, Hollywood's Cecil B. De Mille, New York's Charles M. Schwab, 2,000 other rich Americans and a great number of cinemansions own organs. Instance of Depression's spur to invention, Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. demonstrated in Manhattan last week a new instrument, smaller, cheaper...
Take a Chance (book by Bud G. De Sylva & Laurence Schwab; music by Nacio Herb Brown, Richard Whiting. Vincent Youmans; Laurence Schwab, producer) is fast, noisy, funny. It reverts to the pre-Depression type of musicomedy, makes no pretense of smartness but loses no entertainment value by its atavism. Buried in a torrent of gags, girls and Jew blues is a plot: a Harvardman, trying to cash in on his Hasty Pudding Club theatrical experience, woos and wins a lowly dancer whose fortune two shoe-string impresarios try to promote. No Harvardman was ever more blond and decorous than Jack...
Brewer Frank Schwab, onetime Mayor of Buffalo, was dismayed at his colleagues' zeal to flood the market. Said he: "Beer won't last five years if the saloon is allowed to come back...
Leadership students would read the lives of Leaders Washington, Lincoln, Bismarck, Schwab, Ford, Edison, Sperry, Steinmetz et al., supplemented by Success Stories of the standard American Magazine type. There would be lectures by Instructor Wadsworth, stressing self-analysis, adaptability, flexibility of interest. Studies would also include a spatter of psychology, memory, will, habit, the brain and its structure. For homework the students would work over intelligence tests of the Army type and "Standard Interviews," a method of self-analysis which Instructor Wadsworth devised...
...Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett, honorary doctorates of law by the University of the State of New York;* to blind Helen Keller, the Pictorial Review $5,000 Achievement Prize for completing the $1,000,000 fund campaign for the American Foundation for the Blind; to Steelman Charles M. Schwab, the Melchett medal of the English Institute of Engineers: to Columbia's President Nicholas Murray Butler, the Goethe medal and a certificate signed by President von Hindenburg...