Word: batons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distribution of Federal relief funds within the State. Early this month Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins quietly destroyed the State's last hold on Federal relief funds by appointing Frank Peterman, a bitter anti-Longster, to administer Louisiana relief. Last week Senator Long piped his State legislators to Baton Rouge, commanded them to rubber-stamp bills empowering his State agencies to seize and administer all Federal relief and PWA monies sent into the State, clap Frank Peterman into jail if he did not knuckle under. "This," commented an anti-Long legislator, "is a declaration of war against the United...
When Ethel Leginska decided ten years ago that she would be a conductor, musicians and laymen regarded her as an eccentric, a publicity seeker who was ambitious beyond her sex. Leginska pioneered valiantly if erratically, proved that women could wave a baton as capably as they could play the harp or violin. Last week, by coincidence, two lady conductors turned ambitious backs in Manhattan's Town Hall...
Ralph L. Kirkpatrick '30, leading harpsichord artist of the country, will appear as a soloist to play music by Bach on the stringed instrument for which it was written. As conductor Malcolm H. Holmes '28 will wave the baton...
...possibilities have been only partly explored. "Stand by everybody. We are about to present the comic opera entitled "The Kingfish Departs from his Baton Rouge Aquarium in an Attempt to Get in the National Swim.' A shark named Farley," continues the narrator, "is threatening to gobble up the miserable invader" . . . And won't the senators howl with glee, and the radio listeners each rock back and forth in helpless mirth when they hear a few sombre stooges inquire "what about the public works program and the future...
...these Hitlers and Mussolinis. They don't belong in our American life. And Roosevelt is a bigger dictator than any of them." What's more, if he were President, he wouldn't permit Congress to delegate its authority to him. (Perhaps he let them do it at Baton Rouge just so he'd know how to resist when he became President...