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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sinfonietta was organized some four years ago. Its founder, Mr. Arthur Fiedler, had carried the thought of the need of such an orchestra in his mind for years. Not only can this smaller orchestra present adequate music in distant and smaller communities, where it would be inadvisable to take the larger Symphony, but there are many compositions which may bb presented by the small number of players...
...district, as defined by the U.S. Census authorities, comprises an area of 1,022 square miles, and contained in 1930 a total population of 2,300,000 persons. The city of Boston occupied less than 44 square miles and had a population of 781,000. Cambridge with a much smaller area, numbered 113,000 inhabitants. The population of the district as a whole grow during the preceding decade at the rate of 14.9 per cent., but that of Cambridge grew no more than 3.6 per cent., while that of the rest of the metropolitan district outside Boston grew...
...small but dogged opposition which filibustered against his bill for the better part of the three weeks it was before the Senate. He had to keep his temper and his tongue when abused by windy petti-foggers for whose intelligence he had only scorn and contempt. A man of smaller calibre might have given up the struggle- but not "Pluck" Glass. For his reward he had a bill in which he boasted "not an 'i' had been dotted nor 't' crossed by its opponents" without his consent...
...Student Council has also suffered a smaller income than usual partly due to the decreased pledges made by incoming undergraduates on registration day; this lower pledge figure is accounted for by the conditions of finances of many undergraduates. Payment on the part of those who have pledged and then forgotten or failed, according to Young, would enable the Council to have finances comparable to the needs of the organization. Subject to final approval when time has been allowed for further payments, the budget which the Council is endeavoring to follow is roughly as follows: Red Cross, $250; Committee on Friendly...
Various other Washington letters have come and gone. Some were frankly "tipster services," flashing advice to clients to invest this way or that on the basis of legislative acts or guesses. Others are simply news letters on a smaller scale than the big three. McClure Newspaper Syndicate issues a confidential collection of slangy jottings called "The National Whirligig-News Behind the News" by Reporter Paul Mallon. W. F. Ardis, one-time associate of Whaley-Eaton, is in business for himself. One which has disappeared was called Federal Trade Information Service. Countless are bulletins published by various trade lobbies, to post...