Word: adolph
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last famed ' Manifesto of German Intellectuals, the Manifest of the "Culture-Warriors" of 1914 which loudly proclaimed the justness of Germany's cause. Four of 1914's fighting Intellectuals 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...
...Cleveland on has needed eyeglasses, although they seldom were pictured wearing them. Dr. Wilmer has taken care of them all. Last week President Hoover telegraphed him congratulations on the dedication of the Institute. Secretary Mellon and his brother telegraphed him the promise of $30,000 for a research fellowship. Adolph Lewisohn, Manhattan banker, telegraphed another $30,000. Near Dr. and Mrs. Wilmer at the dedi cation ceremonies sat Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root Breckinridge, wife of Wilson's first Assistant Secretary of War. She raised the $4,000,000 which financed the Institute, because Dr. Wilmer saved her eyesight...
...Manhattan, one Adolph Banzer went swimming in Central Park Lake in the nude. A policeman spied him from the bank, put out in a small boat, lassoed him, towed him ashore...
...quavering voice. But this year's most notable observation of Rosh Hashanah, was in Manhattan, where the new and beautiful Temple Emanu-El, costing $8,000,000, was opened. Famed members of this synagog include, besides the late great Louis Marshall (TIME, Sept. 23), Daniel Guggenheim, Benjamin Mordecai, Adolph S. Ochs, Roger Williams Straus. Rabbi Nathan Krass told them the temple signified that "man doth not live by bread only...
Charleston. Elected second vice president of the society was Adolph Newburger of Manhattan, whose claim to fame is that he taught the Charleston 20 years before it became popular. He denies it originated among South Carolina Negroes. It was, he says, one of the steps in his stage-dance, "The American Beauty Rose," danced more than 15 years...