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...authority, but perhaps it is not necessary to have it at all. Perhaps we can still find a formula which, in the basic industries at least, will eliminate the evils of destructive competition while securing an adjustment that may be expected to stabilize employment and mass purchasing power. The search for such a rule is the task which has been committed to the Temporary National Economic Committee...
...industrial Revolution inspired cordwaining Chamberlains to leave London and leather, start making screws in Birmingham in the Midlands, which was for them like having taken a Covered Wagon in dangerous search of Opportunity. In 1854, at the age of 18, the present Prime Minister's father Joseph Chamberlain moved from London to Birmingham to represent the family's new business interests there and before he was half through his bold career he had made Birmingham what civic experts now recognize as "the first great municipality with an integrated and fully modern government...
...tiny bedraggled central Russian village of Vyshny Volochek. His mother, who died shortly after he was born, was a pianist; his father gave lessons on the violin. A poor boy, destined by a traditionally musical family for a musical career, he was soon on his way to Moscow in search of a scholarship at Moscow's Philharmonic Conservatory. Because he was late in applying, and because there were only a few places left in the conservatory orchestra, the only scholarships open to him were for instruction on 1) the trombone, 2) the bassoon, 3) the string bass...
...edge over such peers as Irving Berlin, Arthur Schwartz, Walter Donaldson, Kern, Youmans and great and gaudy Hollywood hack teams like Warren & Dubin and Robin & Rainger. Richard Rodgers is not only the master of a tonal palette filled with surprise and delight, but he is constantly at search for new forms across the known boundaries of his medium. The dream music for Peggy-Ann, and twelve years later for Married An Angel, the "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" ballet music for On Your Toes, the march of the clowns in Jumbo, while probably causing Richard Strauss no alarm for his laurels...
Stopping first at New Haven, Conn., to pick up the Yale students making the cruise the ships then proceeded direct to Havana, Cuba for a three day visit. On the tip down all students carried out a detailed schedule of daily training, witnessed fueling a destroyer at sea, search-light demonstrations and the running of a man-of-war in its entirely including engineering, navigation and communications. They were able to put into practice many of the things learned in the classrooms here and in addition were able to get a first hand picture of life aboard...