As a Jew, he emigrated in 1938 to London, where he worked for Boosey & Hawkes.
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Ernst Roth (1 June 1896 – 17 July 1971) was a music publisher for Universal Edition in Vienna and Boosey & Hawkes in London, and became the company's director in 1968.
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Albert W. Hawkes, a United States Senator from New Jersey in office from January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1949.
He was a trustee of the Freedoms Foundation, where the Hawkes Library (in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania) was named after him.
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His daughter in law, Jane White Hawkes, was the second wife of Alistair Cooke, the British-American journalist and host of Masterpiece Theater.
This was followed by acquiring the world's leading classical music publishing company Boosey & Hawkes (which includes the catalogues of Igor Stravinsky, Benjamin Britten, and Aaron Copland), and Rodgers & Hammerstein, containing the rights to stage and film musicals, and representing hundreds of works by writers including Irving Berlin.