Word: support
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were among last week's rational Intellectuals: Playwright Gerhart Hauptmann, Artist Max Liebermann, Professor Adolph von Harnack, Scientist Max Planck. Hindenburg. Just as in Wartime both sides claim the Deity for their partisan, so last week did both armies in the great Battle of the Referendum claim the support of grizzled old Hero President Paul von Hindenburg. Hugenberg followers quoted the President's famed speech "protesting the War guilt lie" at the anniversary of the Battle of Tannenberg in 1927, as proof that he sympathized with them. Anti-referendumists quoted von Hindenburg's thanks to Foreign Minister...
...Manager Adella Prentiss Hughes, Mrs. Nikolai Sokolov, Composer Janssen, his mother and sister, all together in a box. In Cincinnati the symphony founded 35 years ago by Mrs. William Howard Taft began its first season under the auspices of the Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts. Now assisting in its support will be a new fund-$2,000,000 contributed by the general public, $2,000,000 and more (reckoning real estate and works of art) by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft. Again Fritz Reiner is conductor. The Minneapolis Symphony, under Conductor Henri Verbrugghen, favored first this year the twin...
...Harvard Register in past years has also been printed at the expense of the Budget, but in 1929 the Council voted to discontinue its publication. The lack of support given it by the Student Body seemed to indicate that it was of slight value...
...snug Manhattan office: "Most gratifying! Most! All over the world this decision will have an important effect upon the rights of artists, particularly architects. Heretofore clients have felt free to make such changes as they felt desirable in plans furnished them by architects. This decision seems to me to support the architect's claim to the right to impose his own interpretation of an architectural problem...
...Brown fiasco last Saturday, an observer in the press box reported that the Princeton stands were even more inaudible than they had been the week previous. It is fortunate that the mutterings against the officials which took the place of positive support could not be heard on the field...