Word: altering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While current premier Sophoulis "tries" to effect liberal rule, Tsouderos elaborated, "his hands are tied by an extreme rightist majority. Illustration of this lies in the dismal failure of the mildest efforts to alter the organization of the Army...
...question of leadership for an opposition force accentuates the still-unrecorded stand of Representative Kennedy. As the young liberal spokesman in the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Kennedy has attempted to alter over-cautions policies in that oligarchical organization. Slated for February are the Memorial Committee's meeting and executive gatherings of the Harvard Clubs and the Alumni both able to confirm a decision...
...DeMille went to California in 1913 and rented half a barn in which to film The Squaw Man, there was a village there called Hollywood. But none of the innocents who lived in the village dreamed, in their wildest nightmares, how radically Mr. DeMille and his followers would alter the community...
Unquestionably a high mark for the remainder of the season to aim at, Dr. Koussevitzky's performance of Hindemith's moving symphony, "Mathis der Maler," was a unique marriage of a composer's conception and an orchestra's performance. Hindemith's re-creation of Matthias' paintings from the Isenheim Alter, the Angelic Concert," the "Entombment," and the "Temptation of St. Anthony," in sound brings out all the unearthly power of the artist's work and a hint of his personal distractions and struggles. In Dr. Koussevitzky's hands, the intense score glowed and shuddered almost hypnotically until the final great...
...rode noisily into the third biggest political job in the land. On election night, although he had not yet taken office and had no real authority, he ordered police to send 400 patrol wagons out to bring voting machines to police headquarters-he suspected Tammany henchmen of trying to alter the vote for comptroller. The police obeyed, and the Fusion candidate won. In the next twelve years, the longest period any mayor of New York ever spent in office, life in the great city was seldom dull...