Word: adolphe
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...creative weakness. It had had enough of academic rules and formulae long since outworn and no longer able to express the contemporary point of view. That the age had something to say is very powerfully shown in such pictures as Van Gogh's "L' Arlesienne", lent by Mr. Adolph Lewisohn; the "Still Life Study of Fruit," lent by Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Brewster; the "Street in Arles," lent by Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert E. Fuller; or the "Postman"--M. Roulin, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Treat Paine II. There is vitality of drawing and an expression of energy...
...most religious conferences slowly work up to a climax so last week did this one in San Francisco. The climax came when Adolph S. Ochs, owner-publisher of the New York Times read his report on the $5,000,000 endowment fund for Hebrew Union College. Impressive was the list of names and donations which Mr. Ochs read. From David, Murry, Solomon and Simon Guggenheim, $500,000; from Mrs. Jacob H. Schiff, Mortimer L. Schiff, Mr. and Mrs. Felix Warburg, $500,000; from Julius Rosenwald $500,000 if the fund reaches $4,000,000 by July 1. Other gifts were...
...class rooms were the vestry rooms of B'nai Israel and B'nai Yeshuruh in Cincinnati. Today the college has four large Tudor buildings, has graduated 289 Rabbis. The library now has 70,000 volumes and the largest collection of Spinoziana in the world. The librarian is Adolph...
...Feodor Chaliapin, Russian basso, $200,000 on a personal contract with Adolph Zukor to make a singing picture for Paramount...
...Angeles last week gathered Henry Morgenthau, onetime (1913-16) U S Ambassador to Turkey; Adolph S. Ochs, publisher of the New York Times and President John N. Willys, of Willys Overland Co., Toledo, Ohio. At Maywood, near Los Angeles, with the help of the Messrs. Morgenthau and Ochs, President Willys dedicated his company's new $1,500,000 assembly plant. On the day before the ceremonies, the plant had turned out 60 small, agile Whippets. It will soon go into Willys-Knight production, plant was designed for quick deliveries west of the Rockies and for the Asiatic trade Said...