Word: batons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baton Rouge. With farm relief at least started in the grain belt, the Board traveled south to Baton Rouge, there to attend a meeting of the American Institute of Cooperation, composed of executives in all lines of farm selling agencies. Each member of the Board had been previously invited to attend in his private capacity as an executive of a cooperative; now all went officially as Board members to discuss technical problems, to make helpful contacts, to gather opinions...
...Boston, when Conductor Agide Jacchia of the Boston Symphony's "Pop" (popular) concerts suddenly resigned on the night before the season's finale, Arthur Fiedler was given the baton. He was ready for it, the first Boston-born conductor to lead the Boston Symphony...
...Berlin, last week, Maestro Arturo Toscanini announced after the Scala Company's festival performance that only once more-at the Bayreuth festival next summer-will he conduct opera. Thereafter his baton will wave only at symphony concerts...
...Berlin, last week, Maestro Arturo Toscanini announced after the Scala Company's festival performance that only once more-at the Bayreuth festival next summer-will he conduct opera. Thereafter his baton will wave only at symphony concerts...
...square knapsacks of the French poilus were lightened last week of the Marshal's batons, which, said Napoleon, every French soldier carries. At a meeting of the French Cabinet, it was decided that "the dignity of the title of Marshal of France will be allowed to disappear by extinction of those now bearing it." Marshals Foch and Fayolle are dead. Remaining of the Marshals of France are: Joseph (Battle of the Marne) Joffre, Henri (Verdun) Petain, Hubert (North Africa) Lyauty, Louis (Balkans) Franchet d'Esperey. None of these is a young man. It will not be long before...