Word: performers
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...appointed. . . ." Sir Isaac Isaacs. Even before Prime Minister James Henry Scullin of Australia set out for London to attend the Imperial Conference (TiME, Oct. 13, et seq.), he promised Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs, that the King-Emperor would appoint him Governor General of Australia. That the King-Emperor would perform what had been promised by one subject to another in advance; that Mr. Scullin should have proved strong enough to make His Majesty do it-such was the Empire scandal in London last week. As for Sir Isaac Isaacs, he, apart from being a brilliant lawyer and an able politician...
Where government is secure and civilization high, where engineers can command and skilled workers perform, where mass-production pays, there has Henry Ford succeeded. But even as the tropics and all the vexatious conditions they imply have conquered the genius of many another white man, so last week did they seem to have conquered Henry Ford, symbol of System, Efficiency, Profits. In the rich, deep Amazon Valley, the jungle was reported slowly closing in on a Ford enterprise...
...Secretary declared: "If the policy of building up the enlisted strength of the Air Corps by transfers from the other arms is continued, the Army will soon be unable properly to perform its many missions...
Associated intimately with Mr. Whiting and his concerts was George Barrere, who never failed, year in and year out, to perform on his famous flute with a perfection known only to the foremost flutists of history. And just as intimately associated as Mr. Whiting was the Gluck Melodie which he rendered every year with ever increasing freshness and variety...
Wisely, the test of American Legion membership is honorable service. Few soldiers could choose the service they would perform. Had the choice been theirs, three million more would have found the front lines, and acquitted themselves well. As good and as brave soldiers never left American training camps as fought in France, and I take nothing from the American soldier, the greatest individual of any army...