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During the Presidency of Herbert Hoover, the able engineer and organizer under whose secretaryship the Department of Commerce grew from small acorn to many-branched oak, an element of U. S. Government unknown to the Founding Fathers really got going: government-by-agency. Reconstruction Finance Corp. was the Hoover era's modest prototype for what, after 1933, became known as Franklin Roosevelt's billionaire "alphabet soup...
With the aid of Mount Wilson Observatory, California, it has been possible to show definitely that the two mammoth star islands, each containing thousands of stars, belong to an entirely new class of stellar system, hitherto unknown in the universe...
...yesterday--are often both interesting and well performed. These small concerts really do not receive the attention they merit. There is plenty of room for reform in the concert-planing of most musicians, but even a large part of that music which is receiving attention from musicians is comparatively unknown to the average layman, and as long as we neglect the small-scale idioms were are missing some of the most delightful experiences which music has to offer...
...said General Bliss, happiness at its ending was subdued. The old States, the old ways of life, the old political and social organizations of Europe were shattered; 9,000,000 men had been killed in battle or had died of their wounds; 22,000,000 had been wounded; an unknown number of civilians died as a result of the War. "Not until our children's time can the former joy of life come into the world," Bliss remarked. "And it can come then only if our culminating work makes it impossible for them ever to see another such...
...Pauvre Matelot, by one of the most famous of French modernist composers, Darius Milhaud. But what held them in their seats and sent them home happy was the light, tripping music and witty text of a little musical farce called Amelia Goes to the Ball, by an unknown graduate of the Institute, a youngster of 25 named Gian-Carlo Menotti. Next year Amelia made the Metropolitan, was so successful that it became a permanent part of the Met's repertory...