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ASCAP's chief lawyer is smart Nathan Burkan, friend of the late Victor Herbert, who founded the Society in 1914. Herbert's aim was to prevent song-pirating in theatres and restaurants. Most songwriters he knew were too indigent or too careless to look out for their own pocketbooks. A big organization was needed to bargain, do the necessary detective work. When Radio appeared and popular sheet-music sales suddenly slumped some 75%, ASCAP was ready for action...
Throughout the land last week thousands upon thousands of proud fathers & mothers were preparing to attend the college graduations of their sons & daughters. In Leominster, Mass, the Rev. Nathan Gist packed his bags, set out for California to see his 80-year-old mother graduate this week from Claremont College...
...famed, sharp-eyed founder of the Oxford Groups ("Buchmanites") practically admits in his speeches, the guidance of God often comes to him in the form of choppy, telegraphic memoranda. In Oslo last March Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman declared: "Before I landed in Norway it came constantly in my Quiet Times...
...Another Seixas descendant: Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo...
...Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association Drs. Samuel Peck and Nathan Rosenthal of Manhattan reported success in controlling various types of hemorrhage with injections of venom...