Word: antonic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...judges who, if none of the offerings are good enough to get the prize, will award the money to the "development of creative musical work in America. . . ." The five: Olga Samarov, onetime critic (1926-27) New York Evening Post, concert pianist, divorced wife and friend to Leopold Stokowski; Leopold (Anton Stanislaw) Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, by some able critics considered the world's best symphony conductor after Toscanini; Rudolf Ganz, Swiss pianist, composer, onetime (1921-26) conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; Sergei Alexandrovitch Koussevitzky, Russian conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Friedrich Wilhelm August...
...third week of their Quadrennial General Conference at Kansas City, the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church passed judgment upon Anton Bast, Bishop of Copenhagen, who was accused of unministerial, imprudent conduct. He was charged with having made personal use of funds given to him for supposedly charitable purposes. For it, he had been convicted abroad and sentenced to three months in jail by a civil court...
...addition to condemning Anton Bast, the Methodists condemned wet newspapers, wet politicians and all others who audibly oppose prohibition...
Regardless of this paper sword which swung above Bishop McConnell's liberal head, his associates elected him to head the court of seventeen ministers who would hear less frivolous charges brought against Bishop Anton Bast of Copenhagen, the first foreigner ever elevated to the Episcopacy. This character, it was alleged, has misused charity funds of the church, acting in an "imprudent and unministerial" fashion. Bishop Bast had been condemned, by a civil court in Europe, to spend three months in jail; nonetheless, his friends were confident that Bishop Bast's dilemma had been brought about by civil interference...
...Thus Anton Deniken found himself supreme over two White Russian Governments. The glory went to his head. He conducted himself with the imperiousness of a Romanov, and finally he antagonized the chief of his Cossack officers, Baron Wrangel...