Word: adolphe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Others noted that in the first lists which the Times published, the name of Mr. Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, the Post's owner, was also "carefully concealed," doubtless for the same reason that Mr. Ochs' was?temporary unavailability. Next day the Times published the tax of Adolph S. Ochs...
...Harvard's best quarterback prospects are said to be Izzy Zarakov, Adolph Cheek, and Joe McGlone, all three of whom are dazzling broken field runners. Harvard's linemen, only one of whom has had first string varsity experience and that in a different position than he now occupies, are much smaller physically than those of former years, and in consequence, less apt to shine in the upstanding, hand-fighting game, and the fact that Robb, a Harvard sprint champion, has been assigned one of the end positions and another fast man the opposite wing position, would indicate that there will...
...Times and its owner, Adolph Ochs, get double credit-once for being fair in their news and a second time for having staunchly supported a man to a point at which they may support him in an even greater arena, the battlefield of a Presidential campaign...
...Adolph Ochs was born in Cincinnati in 1858, the son of a Bavarian Jew. He began his newspaper career as a newsboy. He advanced to printer's devil. He served on various Kentucky and Tennessee papers as a printer's apprentice, as an assistant foreman, as a subscription solicitor, as a reporter, as a job-printer, as an assistant business manager. He went to Chattanooga to help found the Daily Dispatch. It failed and was sold to the Chattanooga Times. That failed, and Ochs, with nothing at all, bought it. At that time he was just...
...Signed) ADOLPH STERN...