Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...others with a passion to see Communism come. Driving through Belgrade last week, Smartest Little Statesman Benes knew that, as Pertinax said, his visit "bids fair to mark an important turning point in the history of Central Europe." By his mere presence he generated in the Skupshtina (Yugoslav Chamber of Deputies) frantic criticism of Premier Stoyadinovich as a potential wrecker of the Little Entente...
...long-term folk, palpitated with eagerness to see if Rexism could win enough votes to make it a coming party. At the election of last May the Rexists, offering candidates for the first time, won 11.4% of the popular vote and 21 of the 202 seats in the Belgian Chamber. In Brussels, the district contested last week, they won last May 55,500 ballots out of a total of 340,000. This spring it has been Degrelle's boast that he would win 100,000 and it was agreed last week that that would mean a "decisive Rexist victory...
...German Nazis he is merely a "noise maker" and his U. S. patroness is almost stone deaf. Nevertheless, Paul Hindemith is a god to many a musical modern and his U. S. debut in Washington. D. C. last week-at Patroness Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge's eighth festival of Chamber music in the hall of the Library of Con-gress-was an event of first importance...
...touring with his sister, a talented pianist. In 1915 Hindemith became concertmaster of the Frankfort Opera, but was conscripted for the army shortly afterward. There he served as a drummer because he had no training in brasses. After the Armistice Hindemith returned to Frankfort to compose. He concentrated on chamber music, also wrote settings for poems by Walt Whitman, ballad cycles, strange discordant operas with such names as Murderer, Women's Hope, The Nusch-Nuschi (for marionettes), Sancta Susanna...
...alive. The German Republic, which liked moderns, gave him a medieval tower to live in. The Hochschule in Berlin made him professor of composition. When the Nazis removed Hindemith and tabooed his works because his wife is Jewish, Wilhelm Furtwangler temporarily resigned his posts with the Reich Chamber of Music, the Berlin State Opera and the Berlin Philharmonic out of indignation. Though Paul Hindemith's duties are now lighter, he spends months of every year in Turkey as its musical adviser...