Word: antonine
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Czechoslovakia was straddled by a new boss. His name was Antonin Zapotocky. At 64 he was the closest approach to an Old Bolshevik that new Czechoslovakia could produce...
Then his will broke; he signed the document accepting Gottwald's cabinet, while burly Communist Deputy Premier Antonin Zopotocky looked on (see cut). Said Benes: "This government will only have evil results...
...Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, 59, son of the great Thomas Masaryk, is a nonpartisan in domestic politics but a western democrat in outlook. Unassuming Dr. Petr Zenkl, 61, Lord Mayor of Prague, old crony of Dr. Benes, is one of the ablest and most popular of Socialist leaders. Shrewd Antonin Zapotocki, Communist boss of the powerful, well-disciplined central trade unions council (U.R.O.), is in the thick of the nationalization program. Workers committees chosen by the U.R.O. will help the Government to manage confiscated factories, allocate manpower, speed up production...
Supercritical listeners noted imperfections in the reading of the New World Symphony, Antonin Dvorak's tribute to America. Some of the hastily rehearsed musicians were playing unfamiliar instruments furnished by the U.S. Army Special Services Division. But the Manila Symphony gave the people a promise that night - as well as a concert. As a Dutch officer, a former Amsterdam flutist, put it : "All that is beautiful and good will come back in our lives...
When he went to Manhattan in 1892, he had as assets a rich baritone and a modest training in the rudiments of music. He got a scholarship at the National Conservatory of Music, where he studied under the late great Antonin Dvorak. Burleigh's singing of spirituals was Dvorak's chief spur toward the New World Symphony. Burleigh won his St. George's post against 59 other applicants, all white. The deciding vote was cast by the church's senior warden, J. P. Morgan the elder. Morgan later arranged to have Burleigh sing before Edward...