Word: adolphe
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...Lincoln Memorial University issued a dignified statement to the public that it needed a million dollars to go on with its work. To describe the handicaps it was working under with inadequate buildings and endowment, it quoted a most Lincolnian remark addressed to it by its good friend, Publisher Adolph S. Ochs of the New York Times. Mr. Ochs had said: "You are boring with a gimlet when you should be using an augur...
...lectures will be under the direction of Joseph P. Kennedy '12, President of the Film Booking Offices of America, Incorporated. Among those who have already accepted invitations to lead discussions in connection with the lectures are Will Havs, President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc.; Adolph Zukor, President of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation; William Fox, President of the Fox Film Corporation; Marcus Loew, President of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation; Jesse Lasky, Vice-President of Famous Players; Harry M. Warner, President of Warner Brothers Picture Corporation; Cecil B. DeMille, of the Cecil B. DeMille...
...potentate, were guilty of conspiracy to defraud the U. S. Government (TIME, Dec. 6). Having heard the summing up of Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, counsel for the Government, of Frank J. Hogan and Wilton J. Lambert, counsel for the defense, and having received final instructions from Judge Adolph A. Hoehling, the jurors returned to their attic room to balance the scales of justice. Various tales- have leaked out of what happened there. One thing is certain; ten of the jurors accepted the major arguments of the defense without coercion, while two of them, an educated...
Immediately, Mr. Hogan was on his feet, shouting a violent protest, saying that Mr. Roberts had insulted the defense, reprimanding him for using the word "bribery" before the trial had begun. Nevertheless, presiding Judge Adolph A. Hoehling granted Mr. Roberts' motion after 20 minutes' cogitation, thereby giving the prosecution its first victory. So the jury was "locked up" in a stuffy courthouse dormitory which had only one washstand. On Thanksgiving Day they marched, two by two, under guard, to a turkey dinner...
Married. Frances Lehman, daughter of Arthur Lehman (banker-realtor) granddaughter of Adolph Lewisohn (capitalist-philanthropist); to John L. Loeb, son of Carl M. Loeb (President, American Metal Co.); in Manhattan, at the home of Mr. Lewisohn...