Word: weber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blame it all on Adolf Hitler," said Chaperau. The Führer's connection was via one Rosa Weber, until lately a maid in the Lauer household. According to Albert Chaperau, she overheard much anti-Nazi conversation while she was serving Mr. and Mrs. Lauer, Chaperau, Publisher William Weintraub of Ken, "a London and Paris financier" named Serge Rubenstein, and three other guests at dinner in October...
...Rosenthal, 75, celebrated the soth anniversary of this first U. S. appearance. On the exact date of the former concert, November 13, Oldster Rosenthal prowled up to a special gold-lacquered piano in Carnegie Hall, bowed curtly before a tornado of applause, then pounced upon the opening measures of Weber's Sonata op. 39. Concertgoers who had long marveled at Pianist Rosenthal's strength, speed and musical under-standing now marveled at his endurance. Many a great virtuoso of the keyboard has bitten the dust since 1888. But lion-jawed Moriz Rosenthal could still teach tricks to pianists...
...York Philharmonic-Symphony (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS) opens its ninth radio season with Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz Overture, Jean Sibelius' The Swan of Tuonela, The Return of Lemmin-käinen, Igor Fedorovitch Stravinsky's suite from The Fire Bird, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Adagio and Fugue for Strings, Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, John Barbirolli conducting...
...Olympian disdain for the public, Orlando Weber was quite willing to be delisted, but opposition grew in the ranks of stockholders and Allied gave in after two years. At the same directors' meeting where the $400,000,000 company gave in completely by agreeing to register on the New York Stock Exchange, Chairman Weber turned over his office to almost equally taciturn Henry Atherton. Since then Allied has revealed what proportion of its income comes from the chemicals it makes, what from investments, has gradually expanded its annual statements. Last week it finally revealed most of the miscellaneous securities...
...anyone used to know about Allied's portfolio was its total ($92,000,000 in 1932). Because there were accepted rumors that it was composed of nothing but blue chips. Wall Street was horrified when Orlando Weber was badgered five years ago into admitting that the biggest single holding listed as an asset was really a liability - $31,000,000 of Allied's own stock...