Word: tanner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chartered last May, the Seattle Guild had 36 members in the Post-Intelligencer city room. Last month Publisher William Vaughn Tanner fired 225-lb. Head Photographer Frank ("Slim") Lynch and Dramacritic Everhardt Armstrong, active Guildmen. When the Guild protested, Publisher Tanner declared he had ousted the photographer for "inefficient management," the writer for "gross insubordination...
Though he might have issued some kind of sheet without a full reportorial staff, Publisher Tanner gave up when his printers stayed away. After five days of non-publication, the Post-Intelligencer declared: "Whether this newspaper ever resumes publication is up to this community." A Regional Labor Board hearing was called for Sept...
...your article regarding Mrs. Rhoda Tanner Doubleday [TIME, Feb. 18] you state she was at the Valley Club at Santa Clara. Calif. I am not trying to claim any doubtful distinction for our city, but this occurred at the Valley Club in Montecito adjacent to Santa Barbara...
...autumn day in 1933, shortly after she sued Harold Fowler McCormick for $1,500,000 for breach of promise, Mrs. Rhoda Tanner Doubleday was standing on the practice tee of the Valley Club at Santa Clara, Calif. Few feet away, she claims, Major Max Fleischmann, chairman of Standard Brands' finance committee, was booming out his opinion of her and her suit. Halting a No. 3 iron in midair, Mrs. Doubleday pricked up her ears, listened, flushed, stormed off the tee. Last week, with the McCormick suit settled for $65,000, she turned on Major Fleischmann. Suing in Manhattan...
Marcella Sembrich was 76 when she died. She said her operatic farewell at 50 when her voice was still young, clear, phenomenally high. But at 50 Sembrich had already lived a long life as a public performer. Her Polish father, one of a tanner's 14 children, left a military band to marry. Sembrich, christened Praxede Marcelline Kochanska, was plopped up on a piano bench at the age of four. At six she was studying the violin. At twelve she played at local dances in the family quartet. She was the pianist, her brother the first violinist, her mother...