Word: cravath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loan to be repaid in 1938 with 6% interest. The Metropolitan's chairman, Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath who is also a trustee of the Juilliard School, contradicted only the statement that the Juilliard Foundation had offered solid backing. But both he and quiet Cornelius Bliss, the boxholder who is working hardest to raise the $300,000, signified that as a mouthpiece John Erskine had overstepped his bounds...
...Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, Unemployment Relief. Lizzie Bliss died two years ago but last week in his quiet, wise way Brother Cornelius stepped into just as great prominence as ever his famous sister enjoyed. The Opera's producing company,* headed by Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath, had informed the boxholders that without a $300,000 guarantee it would be unable to renew its lease on the house, that the Metropolitan Opera would cease to be. Gravely the boxholders considered. Some were for disbandment. Cornelius Bliss led his associates to a decision which would have seemed revolutionary...
...Before leaving he gave an out-of-the-ordinary going-away party: a private view before the public exhibition of his collection of Forain paintings, etchings and lithographs. John Pierpont Morgan attended. So did John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Adolph Ochs, Ogden Reid, Owen D. Young, Nicholas Murray Butler, Paul Cravath, Arthur Curtiss James, Arthur Brisbane, Lily Pons. There...
...Beecher started Northerners talking about spirituals and about Fisk-the School for freedmen which a Union General, Clinton Bowen Fisk, a Union Chaplain, Erastus Milo Cravath, and a Union schoolteacher, one John Ogden, established after the War in the Union Barracks at Nashville. Erastus Cravath, its first president and father of famed Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath, the Metropolitan Opera's Board Chairman, took the Jubilee Singers abroad after their New York success, to Stockholm where they gave 52 concerts in a single season, to England where Queen Victoria was a disappointment to them because she received them...
John Daniel Hertz, who moved last year from Chicago where he was interested in theatres and taxicabs to Manhattan, where he serves as chairman of Paramount Publix's finance committee, was elected to the board of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, together with Lawyer Carl August de Gersdorff of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine 8 Wood. They succeeded Bernard Mannes Baruch and the late Paul Moritz Warburg...