Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Noteworthy it was that the Deputies made a big distinction between Daladier the Premier and Daladier the War Minister. Only praise was found for M. Daladier's conduct of the war. Party spokesmen from Socialist Léon Blum to Royalist Xavier Vallat applauded the War Minister's report of France's part in the conflict, cheered when he warned that should the "enemy Führer" order the bombing of French cities (as has recently been threatened by the German radio), the French "will return blow for blow...
...James W. Fesler, who could hear the weekly broadcast much better in their own front parlor (in the studio the music sounds almost as if it were being played under a blanket), make special weekly train trips to Manhattan to see the Maestro conduct in the fiery flesh. Two Buffalo newlyweds recently made Studio 8-H their Niagara Falls. One Texan chartered a plane to get there. Refugees from Central Europe spend their first two cents on U. S. soil to stamp a letter to NBC asking for passes. Bootleg passes retail at $25 a pair. Last week, when Toscanini...
While at 'Harvard he will cooperate with the University Committee on Broadcasting, which arranges broadcasts by Faculty members, with the Radio Workshop for students, and with other groups at the University interested in educational broadcasting. He will not conduct any regular courses, but may give occasional lectures. Siepmann's purpose in coming to this country is to study educational broadcasting, and he will make Harvard his headquarters...
...Congress in which at one time there were just three Representatives defending him. During the bitterest weeks of the war his own family came under suspicion of treason. One of the most awesome scenes in the book is that of the secret meeting which the Senate Committee on the Conduct of the War held early in 1863 to consider this rumor. A member told...
...Lincoln's exquisite modulations of conduct was noted in the fact that at army reviews he touched his hat to officers, uncovered to men in the ranks...