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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sewickley churchgoers, according to local legend, sometimes start their prayers thus: "Our Father, who art a Nevin." Most famed of the tribe was Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, composer of The Rosary, who died in 1901. First biography of Nevin was written by Vance Thompson (1913). Published this week was a bigger & better job, Ethelbert Nevin* by John Tasker Howard (Our American Music; Stephen Foster, America's Troubadour...
...thereby encourage cotton exports which have fallen off badly as a result of the pegged price. This long-range advantage did not appeal to Southern Senators. They bellyached mightily to the effect that a 9? loan sounded cheap and shoddy to their constituents who had learned to expect bigger and finer things from the generous New Deal. Unexpressed, but probably more potent, was the fact that Cotton Senators knew that cotton mills and speculators in the South who had bought cotton at 11? would suffer a loss if AAA moved its price peg down 3?. Two days later, anxious...
...Alberta's Legislature had been won by henchmen of Social Crediteer Aberhart their astonishment was as vast as their dismay. Only a very few Canadian tycoons took a calmer off-the-record view. Sniffed one: "Social credit is interesting and the sooner it fails in Alberta the bigger the lesson to the world will...
...prove was that he was an abler headlinemaker than his House rival. Mr. Hopson before any committee is a witness expert at avoiding damaging admissions, at amplifying his answers into attacks upon his opponents. Nonetheless, Senator Black promptly began producing from his lips facts worthy of headlines at least bigger than those that Representative O'Connor had been able to evoke...
Last week Galli-Curci sang exercises in bed, gaily emitted a high C. She gladly gave the Associated Press her own written account of the goitre operation, broadly suggesting that the potato-less Galli-Curci voice will be bigger & better than ever. Excerpts...