Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University Band will give its last concert of the season tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Harvard Club, Boston...
...gladsome month of May the State of Michigan will hold its Industrial Exposition. The exhibition will include 180,000 square feet of floor space, farm machinery, candy, a Tampa band, electric motors, jewelry and Bernarr Macfadden. Mr. Macfadden, publisher of six magazines "with over two million circulation," is to be there in person to select the winner of a beauty contest; or rather, to choose a girl to be "America's Diana." Why is Mr. Mcfadden chosen for this purpose rather than any other famed publisher-William R. Hearst, or Cyrus Curtis, for example? The answer is that...
...University Band will give its final concert of the season at the Harvard Club, Boston, on April 6 at 4 o'clock. This will also be the last concert directed by A. S. Simmons '24, who has been leader of the band for the last two years...
Over a score of letters have been received by Simmons from radio fans complimenting the band on the concert which was broadcasted from Station WNAC of Shepard Stores on March 12. The most distant message came from Michigan...
...only a partial success, apparently because of atmospheric interference. Eight high-powered British stations (at London, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Glasgow, Aberdeen) were linked up by telephone into a "super-radio" system having a maximum energy of twelve kilowatts, operated from the Hotel Savoy, London, A program of band music and a speech by Senator Guglielmo Marconi was broadcasted. But very few Americans, amateurs or professionals, were able to receive the English program at all, and of the scattered few who did, in New York, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, only partial and temporary receipt was reported. Most of the big American...