Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defied a request to play Giovinezza at Milan's La Scala Opera House. When the Fascists started to agitate for control of La Scala's policies in 1929, Toscanini resigned as director. Two years later, at a concert in Bologna, the peppery little maestro again refused to conduct Giovinezza, saying publicly that, in his opinion, it was not music at all. After the concert a Fascist mob beat him up, Fascist authorities temporarily confiscated his passport, and the Fascist Party surrounded his Milan home with carabinieri. He was under incessant attack in the Fascist press...
Coincident with the development of plans for the V-12 review slated for October 1, Captain George N. Barker, USN, Commanding Officer of the Harvard Naval Training Schools, named three officers to a special staff which will conduct all reviews and special exercises for naval personnel...
Working under the command of Captain George N. Barker, Chaplain Knudsen has established headquarters in the Phillips Brooks House and will be available for consultation daily from 9 to 4:30 o'clock for members for all the Naval Training Schools at Harvard. He will conduct religious services in Potter Hall, near the Navy Supply School headquarters, each Sunday at 5 o'clock, beginning September...
...chaplain he held divine services on board ship almost under the range of enemy guns. He has also conducted services on islands in the South Pacific, and preached to "Seabee" and Army and Navy units which had been unable to conduct religious exercises for ten months on account of a shortage of Chaplains...
...charges involved five of the Articles of War. Specifications: drunk and disorderly in uniform, conduct unbecoming an officer; willful misappropriation of Government property*; snooting of Willie McRae, a Negro private at the field; procuring unlawful transfers of enlisted men and noncoms to Selfridge; accepting a vacation lodge from the father of two unlawfully transferred men; obtaining the transfer of Private Benson Ford (grandson of Henry Ford) to Selfridge. On all charges, Colonel Colman pleaded not guilty...