Word: adolphe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Died. Adolph Bernard Spreckels, 67, son of Claus Speckels who founded the big sugar industries of California and the Hawaiian Islands; at San Francisco, after a short illness. He was Vice President of the J. D. Spreckels & Bros. Co., and was connected with the Spreckels Sugar Co. of California and Hawaii. Famed as a sportsman, he owned fine yachts, important racehorses...
...Adolph Simon Ochs, Publisher The New York Times LL.D...
...fled ashore from the yacht of her wastrel millionaire husband?finally sends her back to the debauchee. It seems a foolish thing to do?perhaps he was touched by the heat. But the picture is made consistently interesting through good direction, through good acting by Percy Marmont, Leatrice Joy, Adolph Menjou and particularly Laska Winter as a half-caste girl, and through a smashing wreck at sea which solves the triangular situation with one slap of the waves...
...Olympic (White Star)?Lady Isabella Howard, wife of the British Ambassador; Jay Gould, national court tennis champion; Adolph S. Ochs, propprietor of The New York Times; Jacob Fishman, editor of The Jewish Morning Journal; Alice Joyce, cinema actress...
...President had picked an opportune minute to rap the Senate, for the reputation of Francis J. Heney is unpleasant in several particulars. California papers were quick to retell the story of "San Francisco's reign of terror." A rich man, Adolph Spreckles, animated by vanity or patriotic zeal, employed the man years ago. Heney secured the confessions of a number of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco. Holding these confessions like blades of Damocles he "ruled" the city in accordance with the instructions of Client Spreckles. It became a "government by injunction." Tsar Spreckles, said the Los Angeles...