Word: wolff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...white film (i.e. 32 instead of 16 exposures per second); 2) that the negative film, after exposure, was stained alternately red and yellow. Witnesses reported that all colors of the spectrum were faithfully reproduced, delicately shaded even at the violet (short wave) end. The inventor, Herr Professor Emil Wolff-Heide, was hailed by colleagues for having made "the greatest advance in photochemical research of the decade." The cinema public waited to see its evening's joy illuminated with radiant sunsets, hot colloquial color, ravishing flesh tints...
Died. Rt. Hon. Alexander Montgomery Carlisle, 71, designer of the ill fated Titanic, friend of former Kaiser Wilhelm II, whom he visited recently at Doorn (TIME, Nov. 30, GERMANY), retired General Manager of the great Belfast shipbuilding firm of Harland & Wolff, created a member of the Privy Council by Edward VII; at London, after prophesying his death some weeks ago and ordering that the Merry Widow Waltz be played at his funeral...
...hour of an autumn afternoon. He might have thought, for a cigar puff or two, of widely separated and irrelevant things?of the year he served in the German Army in the early eighties?;-of what Roosevelt once said of him*?of the fact that his son, Roger Wolff Kahn, has organized a very successful jazz orchestra?of the respectful way in which the press is beginning to call him "America's Foremost Patron of tre Arts." Or he might have thought, not without satisfaction, of the banking career whose compact pattern knits these scattered salients. Formerly cashier...
...communists, Mexico's attitude is shown by the expulsion from the country of their chief leader, one Wolff. We will have no backward, retrograde movements in Mexico...
...Court of Industrial Relations had ordered the Charles Wolff Packing Co. to conform to certain wages, hours of labor, working conditions. The Supreme Court of the state had commanded obedience to the order. After a preliminary review of the case by the U. S. Supreme Court, the State Court gave up its rulings on wages and working conditions, but insisted on the specified labor-hours. That crippled the Industrial Court's prestige. Last week's final review threw out the ruling on labor-hours. The Relations Court is now believed to be dead.* Gov. Allen's great...