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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Debussy: Preludes, Book 2 (Walter Gieseking, pianist; Columbia: 12 sides). A top-rank pianist and No. 1 Debussy-boy, massive, snorting, French-born German Pianist Gieseking completes the finest set of Debussy piano performances yet recorded...
...study in history, civics, economics, geography, sociology. They take their jobs and themselves seriously. Distressed but not daunted by evidence that, in spite of their textbooks (and the field investigations which they prescribe for students), the world is still full of knaves and fools, this week they published a book* that attempted to get the schools off to a fresh start in citizen-making...
...last week Professor Rugg and Professor Wilson (now on the faculty of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and editor of a series of social studies texts published by American Book Co.) had patched up their feud. Both contributed to the National Council's new book...
Most arresting proposal in the book (by Hunter College's Frances Morehouse) was that U. S. youngsters should get a new set of heroes. To conventional U. S. heroes, such as Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Miss Morehouse proposed to add: Buffalo Bill, Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Wright Brothers, Elias Howe, Booker T. Washington, G. W. Carver, Cyrus W. Field, Jane Addams, Dan Beard, Richard Byrd, Charles Lindbergh...
...outlined: > Companies in the Electric Bond and Share system have budgeted $80,000,000 of new construction for 1940 ($66,000,000 authorized this year). > Wendell Willkie's Commonwealth & Southern system (which two weeks ago sold more property to TVA-at a loss of about one-third on book value) is spending an extra $22,000,000 over & above its normal $33,000,000 a year. > Duke Power Co., which powers 7,000,000 cotton spindles (25% of those working in the U. S.), is spending $8,000,000 on an 80,000 kilowatt plant on the Yadkin River...