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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teeth in one week's time, that had been left in the heads of those poor people as long as 20 years. 7) That we stopped the pardon craze in this State, forced a few people to be hanged, and used the militia where it was necessary. I begin to wonder what kind of respectability or conscience can be attached to your magazine, with the kind of filthy falsehoods that you circulated through this country. You never have explained anything; you did not print the truth when it occurred to the contrary, and you have not so much...
...settled itself ecstatically to hear Arturo Toscanini conduct the season's first concert of the Philharmonic-Symphony. The occasion itself, anyone would have said, demanded more preliminary pomp. Long has the Philharmonic angled for an option on the services of Toscanini. Only this year has he come to begin the season and to conduct the major portion. But when last week his audience stood proudly to greet him and began the expected ovation, the little man quashed it with a quick bow, turned his back, tapped smartly for attention and began the business of the evening. The Overture...
Other major U. S. orchestras, so classified on the basis of schedules, budgets and excellence, begin their seasons soon. They are, with their conductors, the Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky; the Chicago Symphony, Frederick Stock; the Cleveland Orchestra, Nikolai Sokoloff; the Cincinnati Symphony, Fritz Reiner; the Detroit Symphony, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, conductor, Victor Kolar, associate conductor and Eugene Goossens and Bernardino Molinari, guest conductors; the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Artur Rodzinski beginning his first season as conductor; the Minneapolis Symphony, Henri Verbrugghen; the Portland (Ore.) Symphony. Willem van Hoogstraten; the Rochester Philharmonic, beginning its first season in association with the New Civic Orchestra...
...large underground oil reserves might be diminished through lack of gas pressure, this is an ideal arrangement; but to the little producer who wants to get his oil just as fast as the gas will push it out of the ground in order to pay off his costs and begin to make money, it seems dubious. At any rate, little operators met in Los Angeles last week, formed the Association of Independent Operators, tried to make up their minds whether to stake everything on proving the conservation law unconstitutional or to sign the contracts sent out by the co-operative...
...Bloody gloves were found in the night porter's pocket. One groundfloor tenant was a notorious jewel thief. The landlord and the top-floor married couple were also suspects. The murderer, like everyone else, was, indeed, indoors-where any of Author Kennedy's readers will remain who begin reading the book there...