Word: rudolph
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rudolph Spreckels, head of Spreckels Sugar Corp., great refiners, had suggested the sliding scale sugar tariff and obtained for it the President's cautious approval. Complex in operation, its purpose would be to stabilize the retail price of sugar at 6? per lb. (present price: 5?). The tariff would run from 1? to 2.4? per lb. As the retail price of sugar went up, the tariff would go down and vice versa...
...President Hoover last week studied a system of sliding sugar tariffs brought to him by Sugarman Rudolph Spreckels of California. He jiggled it around experimentally to see if it would protect both consumer and producer, then laid it aside to proclaim an increase in the tariff on linseed oil from 3 3/10 cents per lb. to 3 7/10 cents...
Last fortnight Mrs. Ector Orr Munn. daughter of the late Rodman Wanamaker, paid $10,496 for smuggling in new clothes. Mrs. Rudolph Lederer of Chicago paid $5,286 for the same reason...
...Rudolph Krohne of Berlin last week asked the President to attend the International Advertising Association's convention in that city next August. Instead of accepting, President Hoover wrote a letter commending advertising ethics to Charles Clark Younggreen, the association's president. Mr. Younggreen, overjoyed, made the letter public two months before the convention...
Chief financial figure in Kolster is Sugarman Rudolph Spreckels, board chair man. Chief radio expert is Engineer Frederick A. Kolster. Born in Geneva, Switzer land, transported to Boston, Mass., at the age of two, Mr. Kolster was originally destined to be a musician. His family came to this country, indeed, because his father had been engaged to play a violin with the Boston Symphony. Young Kolster therefore soon had a violin handed to him. But his small hands did not well adapt themselves to the instrument and when to the violin was added a piano, Engineer Kolster, rebellious, entered...