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...first exploit of this character was to demand and receive by right of might the resignation of President Arturo Allessandri (TIME, Oct. 12, 1925), and to cause the election of President Emiliano Figueroa...
...twelve inches wide. Such stuff was suspect, for the elect. Not until radio proved that the people will listen to music, even concerts and operas, until the orchestra drops dead or the vacuum tubes blow out, did phonograph-makers realize what a musical bonanza they had failed to exploit. And if long-time records would sell, then music that it takes a long time to play could be recorded and probably sold. Hence the "in-a-nut-shell" sales elocutions on "good" music with which Victor furnished its salesmen last week when it brought out records that will play...
...Yale man to Princeton men, I ask you, is this fair? She writes: "I might make the point that a Harvard man always tried to conceal his college and a Yale man to exploit it"--and again "A Yale man would make me feel that his conversation was the most interesting thing in the world; a Harvard man as if my conversation was the most interesting thing in the world...
...Because of ancestor worship," said Mr. Gray, "China is a sadly overpopulated country. This overpopulation and the ignorance of the people, coupled with the fact that great numbers of them are on the verge of starvation, makes it possible for employers to exploit them. They are herded into the cities and paid harely enough to live on. As a result China furnishes the most fertile soil for any sort of propaganda. Here one finds the most promising source of mob violence...
...Story of romanticism in European music, of solo piano concerts, of pianists who exploit brilliant personalities for their art's sake, begins with the father-in-law and in-opera of Richard Wagner, the inventor of the symphonic poem, the demon-angel of European music for 60 years, Franz Liszt,* artist, lover, Franciscan monk...