Word: beene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judge Bingham, nominal editor of the Courier-Journal for ten years, doubled its circulation, upheld the national reputation that Colonel Watterson had given it. But he left the editorial page to Harrison Robertson, and in 1929 resigned the title to him. (Judge Bingham became Franklin Roosevelt's Ambassador to...
Once a conservative who believed that democracy had been a dismal failure, Editor Agar swung leftward with Roosevelt. His recent books are pious, eloquent, Democratic; his syndicated column, Time and Tide, has a resolutely New Deal aura. He takes his seat in Marse Henry's vacant office next January...
In 1936 Dictator Josef Stalin cracked down on Russia's noisy modernist composers. He accused them of "bourgeois degeneracy," confiscated their compositions, told them to stop imitating the sound of Soviet steel mills and cement-mixers, get themselves a few singable tunes. Since then, presumably, the party line in...
Many a mewling white tenor has strutted the proscenium at Manhattan's Metropolitan while more gifted Negro singers, by long-standing custom, were excluded. But in the field of concert singing Negroes like Roland Hayes and Paul Robeson have held their own with the best. Today's most...
Last week the memory of these Stockbridge bravos brought a sold-out house to Dorothy Maynor's first public recital, at Manhattan's Town Hall. Bronze, cherub-faced Diva Dorothy soon showed that her Stockbridge judges had not been far wrong, but had been a little premature. When...