Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Detroit News published the results of an investigation of the programs played by the orchestras of six U. S. cities. They took the average date of composition of all works played during the season, found that Cleveland (1874) was most modern, New York next (1872), then Boston and Chicago, tied (1869), Philadelphia (1865), Detroit...
Further analysis snowed Cleveland's lead to be due to the fact that it played so little 18th Century music; that the Boston Symphony, under Serge Kousseviyzky, led in 20th Century music, with Chicago next under Frederick Stock, and the New York Symphony next. Chicago has played the greatest proportion of the classics, with Philadelphia next; and Detroit, under Ossip Gabrilowitsch, leads in the 19th Century. The percentages...
...Cleveland...
...Cleveland went social servants of all ages, sizes, colors, creeds, and of both sexes, to the round number of 5,000. They represented the National Federation of Settlements, the National Probation Association, the National Association of Travelers Aid Societies, the National Conference of Jewish Social Service, the National Conference on Social Service of the Episcopal Church, the International Association of Policewomen, and scores and scores of others. They swarmed in Cleveland's public meeting places and hotels, coming together after a series of individual meetings as the National Conference of Social Work, "largest convention of its kind in history...
Died. William B. Clover, 56, former Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, onetime reporter for the Cleveland Press and correspondent of the Scripps-McRae League of newspapers, organizer of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance; in Washington...