Word: commonnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modified to permit gov- ornmont to assume its new responsibilities--to break the severity of depressions in a world that has seen semi-monopoly and corporate organization throttle free competition and the entrpreneur, Unlike Walter Lippmann, Hoover does not advocate that we solve all our problems by waving the common law in the face of the United States Steel Corporation...
Cadman believes that native composers have not yet struck the common denominator which constitutes the true American musical idiom, sees U. S. composition as too much swept by passing fancies (jazz, Indian idioms, Negro spirituals, et al.), finds extreme modernism merely "an interesting experiment." Says he: "There must be melodic line. The appeal must be to the heart as well as the head...
...household industrial names as Owen D. Young, Lammot du Pont, Packer Gustavus F. Swift, Soapman S. Bayard Colgate, Oilman William Stamps Parish, Camelman S. Clay Williams, Steelman Eugene Grace. Copperman Louis Shattuck Gates and many and many another manager of major corporations. Even the rank & file clustered at the common tables will read like a Directory of Directors. And through the rich blue haze of New Waldorf cigars, the nation's manufacturers will listen to the first woman ever asked to address them-Columnist Dorothy Thompson, Novelist Lewis' wife...
Back to the common faith from which we've all dissented...
Coach Sargent's polo Players passed their first test with flying colors Saturday night when they downed the Ramblers 121/2 to 8 at Common wealth Armory in the season's first League A game...