Word: spadework
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...island, presumably in company with his lush mistress, Donna Maria. Trujillo planned to stop in Washington to renew the 17-month moratorium on the $16,000,000 debt the Republic owes U. S. bondholders. Meanwhile his Minister to the U. S., Rafael Brache, was doing the preliminary spadework with the U. S. State Department. Inasmuch as Trujillo's position depends on steady pay for his oversized army of 2,700, he obviously cannot afford fully to amortize the debt...
...smaller roles have been drilled tirelessly all autumn. More difficult still has been the task of training an orchestra which has never before played the Ring. Five players had to be brought on from Manhattan, four to play the special Wagner tuben, one the drums. To start the spadework a month ago, Conductor Artur Bodanzky sent two of his assistants from the Metropolitan Opera. For the past fortnight he has been on the job in person, rehearsing as much as 16 hours a day, shouting at his horns for greater force and clarity, pleading with his strings for more true...
...currently laboring under the name of the "Modern Missions Movement." Most active worker is Dr. Orville Anderson Petty, 60, Congregationalist minister, one-time president of Arnold College in New Haven, onetime Army chaplain (with citations and decorations), onetime president of the New Haven Council of Churches. Dr. Petty did spadework for the Laymen's Inquiry as a "FactFinder" in India. Says he: "An increasing number of world-minded Christians desire to support work abroad on the basis of merit and promise, regardless of religious affiliations." Last week Dr. Petty was busy preparing lists of "Commendations" from which such Christians...
...Author- James Paul Warburg, 37, is vice chairman of the Bank of the Manhattan Co., co-author with his wife Katherine ("Kay") Swift of "Can't We Be Friends?" and "Up Among the Chimney Pots." Born in Germany and educated at Harvard he did much of the early spadework for the London Conference. Since his exit from the national stage, he has been a prime leader in the fight against inflation...
...fail to notice the more noisome puddles, and Dickens soon made a name for himself as a crusader against social ills. To his critics' assertion that his indignation proceeded from no plan, that he had no social program, his defenders reply that his attacks did much of the spadework that made programs possible. In many a passage in his novels he pictured the desperate plight of the metropolitan poor, their crowded and filthy dwellings, the ignorance, disease and dirt that was complacently assumed to be their lot. Dickens pilloried child labor (David Copper field), venaliy-conducted charitable institutions (Oliver...