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...members gave birth to chapters in the Merry-Go-Round they retired into a corner to do it. I can stand being labeled a Georgetownite (though I live in the Free State), but the last paragraph of the review, wherein it is said that Ross, Anderson and others of the "Georgetown Group" singled themselves out for encomiums, strikes me as a pretty dirty and unwarranted crack...
...dawn that day an airplane streaked away to Austin, Tex. where a copy of what came to be known as Louisiana's "Drop-a-Crop" act was handed to Governor Ross Shaw Sterling with Governor Long's suggestion that Texas also prohibit 1932 cotton planting. Thus to a monster (250 Ib.) Governor of a monster (265,896 sq. mi.) State was passed a monster (15,685,000 bales) cotton problem...
Retorted Governor Long: "No, I'm not. but I wish Ross Sterling was. If he doesn't run other things any better than he's running Texas, he can't run any thing...
Governor of Texas. All of these men and agencies in Washington could not do so much for the cotton planter as one big man in Texas. But Governor Ross Shaw Sterling was not inclined to use the full power of his position. It appeared as though he would veto any attempt of the Texas Legislature to prohibit cotton planting next year. Said he: "I wouldn't let a child burn itself with fire if I could prevent it. ... I have not been swept off my feet yet. There is too much hysteria in Texas and in the South." He said...
...organists discussed technical, mechanical organ-problems, heard Pianist-Author John Erskine tell them that "the best music of the future" would be composed by them. They elected him an honorary member of the Association. They listened to the Schola Cantorum sing old motets under Conductor Hugh Ross, made a tour of Manhattan's finest church-organs: at St. Patrick's, St. Bartholomew's, Riverside Church, Temple Emanuel, Trinity Church and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Inventor-Pianist Hans Barth played for them on his quarter-tone piano...