Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story appeared in Havana's gossipy InformaciÓn last month that he devoted a session to a fierce harangue against the press, ordered InformaciÓn's Senate reporter to be booted from the press gallery. At this point the Senators decided they had had enough "conduct unbecoming a Senator," began clamoring for President Illas' resignation. After they refused to appear in numbers sufficient for a quorum. President Illas growled that he would resign. But when, to save face on both sides, his friends got 20 of the 36 Senators to give him a vote...
Composer Damrosch began to conduct the New York Symphony and Oratorio Societies 50 years ago, kept the former until 1927, year before it merged with the Philharmonic, founded the Damrosch Opera Company and made $53,000 the first season. He made himself nationally famous by his lectures on Wagner, is still active with a children's music hour on the radio. Arthur Guiterman, whose verses in oldtime Life and elsewhere were for a generation as much of a U. S. landmark as the drawings of Charles Dana Gibson, still publishes skittish poems, but has in recent years tried more...
...Princeton's public-spirited President Harold Willis Dodds to engage in a preliminary survey. Since March the committee has been conferring privately with Government bigwigs, including Secretaries Wallace and Morgenthau. These and similar "exploratory sessions" will be all the gradually assembling faculty of the Littauer School will conduct until it is opened to students in the fall of 1938. By that time it will have moved its headquarters from old Hunt art museum to a new building, for which Founder Littauer earmarked $500,000 of his gift...
...conclusion, it was noted that the dean placed men on probation for their conduct, "but at the express wish of parents names of the culprits will not be disclosed...
Feeling that University students only get a chance to express their opinion about spinach, the foreign debt, likeliness to succeed, and such matters, the Blanchard-Dorner publicity bureau are asking the twelve outstanding colleges in the country to conduct a poll to determine the most beautiful blonde in America...