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...time among the Osages and Omahas, recording their music, lecturing on it, deriving themes from it. Two decades ago he turned from such ventures to the writing of opera, produced Shanewis, first U. S. opera to survive two seasons in the repertory of the Metropolitan Opera House, and A Witch of Salem, given by the Chicago Civic Opera Company. Then he turned to orchestral pieces and chamber music. An indefatigable worker, he has also written over 300 songs...
...Morgan partner sits on the board of Guaranty Trust and a Guaranty Trust official sits on the board of a coal company, then the House of Morgan controls the coal company-not to mention the Guaranty Trust. But Governor Earle promptly opened up on "the witch doctors of Wall Street...
...What difference does it make if Hugo Black is a uniformed Kluxer? ... It was plain from his record that he is a born witch-burner-narrow, prejudiced and class-conscious. ... To suggest that the President did not know these traits is to belittle not only Mr. Roosevelt's splendid intelligence, but also his fine inbred instincts. ... A candidate even for district judge is investigated for weeks by G-men. But Black's appointment to the Supreme Court was not even referred to the Department of Justice. The President may not have known the general Washington belief...
Having filled a good-sized book with observations on personnel problems, Chinese face-saving, food, business etiquet, chiseling, the role of witch-doctors in business, the vagaries of U. S. export managers, and whatever else was at hand except a statement of profits, Author Crow gently implies that although the Chinese birth rate is approximately one a minute, it consists of a remarkably small number of suckers...
Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. sells under its own brand name in its famed department store some 3,000 articles including bicarbonate of soda, Epsom salts, witch hazel, face powder, lipstick, milk of magnesia, shaving cream, peroxide, cascara pills. Last week a consignment of 48 of ''Macy's Own" drugs and cosmetics, including those named, arrived not at Broadway & 34th Street but in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where it soon filled a large window and several counters in the "Boston Store" of Fowler, Dick & Walker. Wilkes-Barre citizens, dripping from an all-day downpour, bought...