Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chorus of Dissent. Despite this historical precedent and veiled assurances that the President would flex out imperfections which even 'the Republican National Committee admitted were in the bill, a great new sector of U. S. industry called imperiously for a veto. Normal protestants against tariff upping are importers (i. e. department stores) who bear the brunt of higher rates, and political opponents who plead in the name of the ''consumer." Now the chorus of tariff dissent was swelled by a third and more potent group, composed of big industrialists who have saturated home markets with their production...
Alvan Macauley of Packard, Albert Russell Erskine of Studebaker and Charles W. Nash of Nash flayed the bill in chorus as "a great menace to our foreign trade...
Voluble Admirals. Meanwhile admirals called as witnesses before the Foreign Relations Committee continued to discharge broadsides of professional disapproval against the treaty. In 15 days 23 high naval officers appeared to testify at the call of Senator Johnson and 21 of them could find nothing but fault. In chorus they complained that under the treaty the U. S. would: 1) have to build a cruiser fleet on specifications dictated by Britain; 2) have less than a sporting chance with 6-in. gun cruisers instead of 8-in; 3) be at a serious disadvantage against Japan in defending far Pacific possessions...
...ballerinas. A characteristic Shubert addition is the $10,000 revolving stage, largest in the U. S., built between Forest Park's renowned and majestic twin oaks (heavily insured, dosed with castor oil to fend off sickness). Director Shubert has $36,000 to spend on each production, a chorus of 84 "Muny"-trained native sons and daughters, a professional ballet of 16, a symphony orchestra of 50, a different cast of first-rate performers for each presentation (an innovation). On good nights when it does not look like rain, he may pack his roofless house with 8,000 spectators...
...Club will be represented by a picked chorus of 20 men. Following supper, which will be served from 6 to 8 o'clock, the singers will present a short program chosen from this year's repertoire. Selections by Sullivan, Brahms, and Coleridge-Taylor will be sung. D. A. MacKinnon '26 will conduct the chorus...