Word: warburgs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diggers hit a well which flooded the basement dressing rooms. On Feb. 10, 1936 the show went broke, rehearsals were temporarily abandoned. The backers - rich and loyal Jews like Presi dent Maurice Levin of Hearn's, President Alfred A. Strelsin of Reliance Advertising Co., Banker Felix M. Warburg, Publisher Eugene Meyer of the Washington Post- had already put up $250,000, were unable or unwilling to continue bearing the full financial responsibility...
...nominations for directors of the Alumni Association are: Duncan G. Harris '00, Lawrence Howe '07, Leon M. Little '10, Richard C. Floyd '11, Griscom Bettle '14, John M. Franklin '18, Frederick M. Warburg '19, Edward L. Bigelow '21, and Dr. Myles P. Baker...
...autobiography was published in the U. S.* proved to be a terse, candid book, attempting to clarify a record and a credo which have long seemed enigmatic. Also last week it was announced that another Stravinsky opus will have its world premiere in the U. S. next spring. Edward Warburg and Lincoln Kirstein, wealthy young backers of the American Ballet, have commissioned him to compose a new dance suite for their troupe, plan to present it during the popular-priced season at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...
Brisk and personable young "Jimmy" Warburg welcomed Franklin Roosevelt's election in 1932 with high enthusiasm, took his place as one of the New President's close economic advisers. Among the first such pilots to abandon the New Deal ship, he quit in bitter disillusionment after the President torpedoed the London Economic Conference, at which Banker Warburg was U. S. fiscal expert, and with it Warburg's hopes for currency stabilization and revived international trade. Last year Banker Warburg capped his outspoken criticism of his old chief with Hell Bent for Election, which eloquently denounced Franklin Roosevelt...
Presumably his GOPatrons were no less embarrassed than Author Warburg when he wrote to Secretary of State Hull last week that his disillusionment with the Republican candidates and platform plus his gratification at the New Deal's reciprocal tariff treaties and recent moves toward currency stabilization had won back his vote. Of his Roosevelt criticism. Banker Warburg wrote: "I make no retractions." Of Republicans: "It is impossible for me to support an opposition which either will not or cannot recognize that economic nationalism lies at the root of our great difficulties...