Word: aaron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...payola," Russia has its own Aaron Brenner, chief of Moscow's Bus Depot No. 7. Brenner auctioned off the best routes to drivers, charged them 150 rubles when their buses needed new motors, 200 for a new bus, 500 rubles hush money whenever they had an accident. Not satisfied with all this, he falsified his books, and before the government got on to him, bilked the state of some 700,000 rubles in a single year...
...Died. Aaron Sapiro, 75, fiery lawyer from San Francisco, who promoted cooperatives in state after state, sued Henry Ford in 1927 for libeling the Jewish religion in his weekly newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, and settled for about $80,000, later became involved with Chicago gangsters; in Los Angeles...
...visitors had for the Boston Symphony, the first U.S. orchestra to tour Russia (in 1956), and for its Russian-born or Russian-speaking musicians. During rehearsals, the Russians filed into the side balcony of Symphony Hall, leaned intently over the railing, and watched Conductor Charles Munch. Kabalevsky and Composer Aaron Copland (who rehearsed his own suite from The Tender Land) alternate on the podium...
...Dore Schary) is a disaster of good intentions. The author of Sunrise at Campobello is writing in protest: he is one of the people who, aware of the danger of strontium 90 in the air, would ban further nuclear test explosions. Playwright Schary's central figure, Dr. Aaron Cornish (Kenneth MacKenna) is a famous atomic scientist stricken, very possibly because of his nuclear activities, with acute leukemia. In any case, after self-searching, he determines to spend what months remain to him urging an end to nuclear-bomb tests...
...doomed Aaron Cornish spends a great deal of time conferring with his doctor and arguing the dangers of nuclear testing with a contrary-minded colleague. Most of this, if remarkably dull, can at least be called relevant. But a far greater part of the time, Dr. Cornish is being visited by relatives: a son and a daughter-in-law, a brother and a sister-in-law, a sister and a brother-in-law, a nephew and a niece. In they come with their little domestic problems, and out they go; back they come with their headaches or their beatnik poets...