Word: adolphe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tradition has it at the New York Times that for 65 years the chair set aside for the boss has had an invisible name plate bearing the legend, "Reserved for Family." It is a tradition that dates all the way back to the turn of the century when Adolph Ochs, a printer turned publisher, hocked his Chattanooga Times to take a flyer at running a paper in the big town...
...honored tradition at the Times. Sulzberger himself married the daughter of Publisher Adolph S. Ochs, and when Dryfoos took over the top spot, told him: "I was sensible enough to marry the boss's daughter, and you were...
...easily be challenged anywhere else in the Government. In 1910 the members rebelled against Speaker Joe Cannon, and much of his enormous power was shifted to various committees. These committees have occasionally become tyrants in their own right and bottled up bills they did not like. Rules Committee Chairman Adolph Sabath once faked a heart attack when pressure was put on him to put a resolution to a vote. But today's House operates with much less rancor than in the past and more give-and-take. Said Sam Rayburn, one of the greatest Speakers...
Apparently, the committee is split between three men, all of them Harvard graduates. One University official indicated that two are from outside the College, the third being Adolph W. Samborski '25, assistant director of athletics...
...league first tackled newspapers that made a practice of identifying Jews in crime stories. New York Times Publisher Adolph S. Ochs, a league official, sent a memo to editors of all U.S. dailies...