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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Founders of new religions are apt to announce that they have been sent by God, that their teaching is divinely inspired, themselves the definitive prophet. Not so Religionist Charles Francis Potter. Last week he hired a hall (Steinway) in Manhattan, packed it (capacity 244), turned away hundreds. Making no audible claims to prophetic succession, he announced "Humanism" and handed out prospectuses thereof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Humanism | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...guests may mingle, talk, admire the gilded Steinway piano where a Miss Grace Goodhue, tourist, tinkled roguishly one day when she could never have dreamed of becoming First Lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Description | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...with Chef James Davis, two porters, a transportation and a tour manager, a valet and a masseur, with Mme. Paderewski, her secretary and a Steinway Grand, Ignace Jan Paderewski started last week on another transcontinental tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Thunderer | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

Died. Frederick T. Steinway, 66, president of Steinway & Sons (pianos); of heart disease, at North East Harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 25, 1927 | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...their countries?16 makes of German pianos, organs, sounding brass and a wide variety of intricate woodwork for translating still air into meaningful reverberations; 19 German and 18 French music publishing exhibits; "His Master's Voice" (Gramophone) from England; instruments and music from the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Sweden; a Steinway piano exhibit from the U. S. There was a colossal German piano that played quarter tones; a weird French orphéal like a harmonium superimposed on a piano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Geneva Fest | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

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