Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once she was arrested for disorderly conduct for interrupting a Philadelphia meeting of American War Mothers, whom she accused of profiteering on Mother's Day carnations. In 1934 she kept James Aloysius Farley from putting "Mother's Day" on his special 3? Whistler's Mother stamp, which she said was just another racket. Last week on Mother's Day she contented herself with denouncing a Manhattan "Mother's Peace Day" parade and a "Parents' Day" meeting in Central Park. (One of her current slogans is "Don't Kick Mother out of Mother...
...feel from your conversation that Mr. Simmons knew of the improper conduct in November...
...pamphlets on this subject which were placed on the pews this Sunday, Dean Sperry wrote: "I have felt for a long time that you (members of the congregation) are compelled, under existing conditions to be much too silent and passive in your relations to the conduct of our affairs. There ought to be some means for the expression of your opinion as to the whole manner and content of our church life...
...gentle, snow-haired lady of 82 living in London, Franz Peter Schubert's grandniece talks easily of how, when a student, she heard Composer-Pianist Franz Liszt play in Budapest in 1870, heard Composer Richard Wagner conduct in Vienna in 1876. Fellow students with her were Conductor Artur Nikisch and Composer-Conductor Gustav Mahler (TIME, Feb. 7). She heard Russian Pianist Anton Rubinstein (Melody in F), Spanish Violinist Pablo de Sarasate (Zigeunerweisen), took piano lessons from Clara Schumann, gifted wife of Composer Robert Schumann...
...Ruppert still refused to budge a dollar, Junior Di Maggio suddenly realized that he was not only losing $162 for every day he was missing from the Yankee line-up but was losing face with his teammates and his public as well. Anxious to have a high mark in Conduct as well as in Homeruns, 23-year-old Joe Di Maggio finally capitulated, wired Owner Ruppert his surrender...