Word: netherlands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hall of Mirrors of Cincinnati's Netherland Plaza Hotel banquet tables gleamed, politicians and businessmen made speeches, a pastor prayed, breathless messenger boys brought in sheaves of cables and telegrams from President Roosevelt, Vice President Garner, Guglielmo Marconi, Albert Einstein, many another bigwig. Powel Crosley Jr., founder-president of Crosley Radio Corp. and owner of WLW, headed a six-hour program which 28 radio engineers broadcast from WLW's plant at Mason, 22 miles away. Thus with pomp & ceremony last week was inaugurated by far the most powerful transmitting station on earth. Until last week Warsaw...
Ewing Virgil Neal was busily doing transient business in a magnificent Florentine suite on the Sherry-Netherland's 14th floor. His rise to wealth began, like that of Owen D. Young and many another U. S. tycoon, on a farm 64 years ago at Sedalia, Mo. He still talks with a Midwestern inflection-bland, drawling, soothing. Sedalia he left when he was 24. going to Philadelphia. Soon he entered the publishing business, wrote and published Modern Illustrated Banking and Modern Illustrated Bookkeeping (which still pay him royalties through American Book Co.). He also operated as publisher in Rochester...
Because TIME arrives six weeks late it is of interest only because it is "curt, clear, complete" and accurate. For these virtues TIME is of value, also on constant test. Our latest test: TIME'S account of De Zeven Provincien, runaway Netherland India battleship, Feb. 20. We were satisfied. The account was TIMEly...
Many numbers which have been sung by the club for many years are included on the program which follows: Cavalier Song Stanford Dirge for Two Veterans Holst Adoremus Te Palestrina To Thee Alone be Glory Bach Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite Handel Prayer of Thanksgiving Netherland Folk Song...
...dignified and well-behaved as bankers, seated around long tables below a marble dais in the glass-&-silver banquet hall of Cincinnati's Hotel Netherland-Plaza last week. 322 delegates of the American Federation of Labor were gravely deliberating the course of their 2,532,261 membership, the course of the U. S. Workingman. On the third day of their 52nd annual convention, the delegates were briefly but thoroughly shocked. Rumblings of disorder came from an out side corridor. Backed by 25 struggling colleagues, an excited man named Louis Weinstock, member of the New York City Painters' Union...