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...Ninety musicians, having long since decided that they had only themselves, their fiddles and horns to help them through Depression, observed that they had given several concerts without much of any notice, that they were as likely to starve as ever, and that what they had better do was beg. So they begged Nikolai Sokoloff to take charge of them. This he was well able to do since he was about to become unemployed as a result of disagreements among the big hackers of the Cleveland Orchestra which he alone had conducted for 15 years...
...Foreign Service, is at the U. S. Embassy in London. Alfred Mitchell, 29, an attorney, helps publish the pinko fortnightly Common Sense in Manhattan. Charles Tiffany, 27, is an interne at the Hartford Hospital. Brewster, 25, who during his Yale years used to go on long fasts, beg food from startled New Haven housewives as a religious discipline, is studying for the ministry at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. Mitchell, 23, after studying art in Paris, is a painter in Manhattan...
...going up. There are the usual difficulties: living quarters are overcrowded, uncomfortable, dirty; food is scanty and not too good; the water supply is whimsical. But when news comes that a rival construction at Kharkov has broken the record for concrete pouring, shock-brigaders gird up their dirty loins, beg permission to have a try at the record themselves. Ishchenko's brigade gets the honor. It is partly like a sporting event, more like a battle. There are two deserters; one brigader runs several miles from the hospital where his wife is having a baby, to be on time...
...time of the agreement to pay me annual compensation of $100,000 it was believed to be in the best interests of the bank. As that agreement has been criticized, I beg to request that it be terminated. Yours sincerely...
...industrial committee headed by Mr. Gerard Swope has broken into revolt at last. They announce that they are amenable to government partnership in business, but beg to register a vote in favour of what they call industrial self government. In other words, now that the machinery of regimentation is being set up for the joint control of capital, labour, and the consumer, capital is in favour of it if labour and the consumer are withdrawn from the helm, and the industrialists are left to their own dainty devices...