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...statement a threat to conscript labor in wartime. Only recently His Majesty's Loyal Opposition forced Prime Minister Chamberlain to stop toying with the scheme of general registration of all citizens, the first step toward nationwide conscription. "As soon as war is declared the generals and the brass hats will be in charge of the whole resources of the country," howled Laborite Aneurin Bevan last week. Two days later, with His Majesty's Loyal Opposition still peppering Sir Thomas, the Prime Minister himself was forced onto the floor to try to make the anxious M. P.s believe that...
...always so. At the turn of the Century, when the first rule of U. S. golf was to purchase a $40 scarlet coat with brass buttons, golf was the pastime of the "400." Its players were not only kidded on the vaudeville stage, but scorned by the more experienced, less gaudy British. In 1913, however, when an obscure 20-year-old Bostonian named Francis Ouimet beat Britain's famed barnstorming professionals, Harry Vardon and Ted Ray, for the U. S. Open championship, Great Britain began to raise her eyebrows. And in 1922, after an amazing crop of young golfers...
Neither are we "hungrily on the hunt" for brass and wood wind players. It is not true that we recently sought to entice three men away from the Philadelphia Orchestra. The three artists mentioned in your article voluntarily applied to us for employment. Based upon their assurance that they were free to negotiate, contracts were signed...
...their possibilities, wrote a book about them, dreamed of gigantic orchestras with platoons of trumpets and battalions of violins. When he composed he often wrote for large combinations of instruments. One such work is his Requiem, which demands a tremendous orchestra and a large chorus, not to mention four brass bands distributed in the four corners of the concert hall. In the Requiem's orchestra are 16 kettledrums played by ten players. When Composer Berlioz' Requiem was first performed, one man in the audience fainted, and critics pronounced it the biggest noise ever heard in Paris...
...spring weather, there was no danger of freezing, but lines of people, some of them women with children in their arms, lengthened outside the city's relief stations. At two stations, applicants sat down, refused to budge for two days. At another a dozen or so formed a brass band to entertain their fellows. Said welfare office Supervisor Delia Milder: "They are sort of desperate now. They have been very tense...