Grossberg
Proper noun
Meaning
Grossberg (plural Grossbergs)
A surname from German.
Examples
Mr. Grossberg, 40, a revenue-operations director in Woodbridge, N.J., dislikes the way barbers either ignore him while silently snipping or pry into his personal life.
Spivak, Chakravorty Gayatri; 1988; Can The Subaltern Speak?; in Nelson, Cary and Grossberg, Lawrence (eds); 1988; Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture; Macmillan Education, Basingstoke.
Rose Sugar married a Weintraub; Esther Sugar married Abraham Silver and had Jessie (married Blashkey); Cissie married a Freeman; Annie married a Sassoon; Malka Sugar married a Grossberg.
In the pilot episode, Grossberg is the chairman of Network 23, a major city television station with the highest rated investigative news show in town, hosted by Edison Carter.
When Carter discovers that Blipverts are killing people, Grossberg orders Lynch to prevent Carter from getting out of the building.
When the advertising method is shown to be a complete fraud, the resulting public reaction against the network leads to the chairman being removed, and Grossberg manages to assume the chairmanship.