Word: adolphe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Sir Adolph Tuck, 72, originator of Christmas cards and picture postcards; at London...
...dinky little white-haired man trotted into the stockholders' meeting of the Famous Players-Lasky Corp. last week in Manhattan, slapped many a friend on the back, invited one and sundry to come and visit him at his country estate out-side of Manhattan. He was Adolph Zukor, president of Famous Players-Lasky...
Publisher Adolph Simon Ochs (N. Y. Times) Litt.D...
Died. John Diedrich Spreckels, 72, after week of illness; at Coronado, Calif. He was the eldest son of the late Claus Spreckles, who expanded his Philadelphia grocery business to control much of the U. S. sugar trade. The sons?John Diedrich, Adolph Barnard (died 1924), Claus August (president, Federal Sugar Refining Co.) and Rudolph (spells his name "Spreckles," onetime fighter of California political corruption)?all went into the sugar business. John Diedrich. went furthest, developed the Pacific islands sugar trade, pioneered transpacific shipping to carry his products, broadened into finance, philanthropic and civic activities...
...Adolph S. Ochs, genius of the New York Times, by many revered as the greatest U. S. newspaper proprietor and the greatest U. S. Jew, swung into the campaign handsomely. His paper advocated the fund far more than any other Manhattan journal, exhorted, reported extensively, published stimulating daily lists of contributors...