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Jaime
Jaime For Spanish rulers thus named, use James.
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Maurice Hirsch, baron de
Maurice Hirsch, baron de , 1831-96, German Jewish financier and philanthropist. The benefactor of numerous organizations and causes, his most ambitious project was the Jewish Colonization Association (1891), an organization designed to facilitate the emigration of Jews from Russia to colonies in Nor...
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Samson Raphael Hirsch
Samson Raphael Hirsch 1808-88, German rabbi and chief exponent of Neo-Orthodoxy. As rabbi in Frankfurt-am-Main, he advocated the organization of autonomous Orthodox congregations outside the state-recognized Jewish communal structure because of the latter's failure to support traditional ideals and...
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The Actors Studio
The Actors Studio organization founded 1947 in New York City by the directors Cheryl Crawford, Elia Kazan , and Robert Lewis to train professional actors. Long directed (1948-82) by Lee Strasberg and famous for its advocacy of the Stanislavsky "method" technique, the workshop has trained m...
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Shubert Brothers
Shubert Brothers , theatrical managers and producers. The brothers were Lee (1871-1953), Sam S. (1878-1905), and Jacob J. (1880-1963). Originally from Syracuse, N.Y., they began as managers of touring companies. In 1900 they became managers of the Herald Square Theatre, New York City, thereafter man...
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William Collins Whitney
William Collins Whitney 1841-1904, American financier and political leader, b. Conway, Mass. After attending (1863-64) Harvard law school, he moved to New York City, became successful as a corporation lawyer, and was associated with various public utility companies and transportation interests. He ...
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Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman frēd´men , 1912-2006, American economist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Columbia, 1946. Friedman was influential in helping to revive the monetarist school of economic thought (see monetarism ). He was a staff member at the National Bureau of Economic Research (1937-46, 1948-8...
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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling , 1775-1854, German philosopher. After theological study at Tübingen and two years of tutoring at Leipzig, he became in 1798 a professor at Jena, where he helped found the romantic movement in philosophy. There he was closely associated with August and Fri...
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Tulsa
Tulsa , city (1990 pop. 367,302), seat of Tulsa co., NE Okla., on the Arkansas River east of its junction with the Cimarron; inc. 1898. It became an inland port with the opening (1971) of the McClellan-Kerr Waterway, a 440-mi (708-km) system linking it with the Gulf of Mexico. Tulsa is an important ...
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Woody Allen
Woody Allen 1935-, American actor, writer, and director, one of contemporary America's leading filmmakers, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., as Allen Stewart Konigsberg. Allen began his career writing for television comedians and performing in nightclubs. His early film comedies, which often depict neurotic urban...
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