Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among those who watched Arturo Toscanini conduct the last of his eleven NBC broadcasts, was James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, director of American Commercial Alcohol Corp., New York Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Plan Industrial Bank of New York, lecturer on Shakespeare, former heavyweight champion. Impressed by Mr. Toscanini's vigor, he ejaculated: "It would take four heavyweight champions to do it like he does...
Thursday. March 17. Payson Smith, Lecturer on Educational Administration, will conduct a discussion on "Current Problems of Youth...
...freedom, cited patriotic groups, Government officials, a contract one teacher had to sign to get a job paying $637.50 a year in North Carolina: "I promise to take a vital interest in all phases of Sunday-school work. ... I promise to abstain from all dancing, immodest dressing and other conduct unbecoming a teacher and a lady. I promise not to go out with any young man except in so far as it may be necessary to stimulate Sunday-school work. I promise not to fall in love, to become engaged or secretly married...
Although Harvard is far from perfect, University officials will find few constructive ideas in former Professor Lake's recent tirade on American education. Indeed, the querulous tone of his criticism seems more indicative of personal resentment of Harvard's belated censure of his conduct than of any real interest in the educational process. Possibly, too, Mr. Lake was impressing Brown University with his qualifications for the chair of Comparative Literature...
Mile, Nadia Boulanger will conduct this concert, made up of nine rarely-heard compositions. Soloists, all drawn from Mile. Boulanger's own company, will be: Mme. Giselle Peyron, Mme. la Comtesse Jean de Polignac, Mme. Irone Kedroff, Mme. Nathale Kedroff, Hugues Cuened, and Doda Conrad...