Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City was lightly touched by the fever. Determined to stamp it out before it could get a start, police arrested 60 sit-downers in Brook lyn's Jewish Hospital for ''endangering the lives of patients," 100 in a Woolworth 5? & 10? store for "disorderly conduct." Detroit, where the Sit-Down epidemic began, remained its seething centre, and Detroiters last week were getting an idea of what a revolution feels like. Timid housewives laid in siege supplies of food from neighborhood stores, being afraid to venture downtown. Guests at the big Statler Hotel got the shock...
Every effort will be made to keep the sports and the whole conduct of the inter-Hall league as informal as possible, Mercer said. The management of the games will be to have one man chosen in each Hall responsible for all the contests...
...about 27,000, Italians some 36,000, and sporadic nomads account for the rest. That Italy owns Libya she owes to her famed Socialist, the late Giovanni Giolitti, who was five times Premier, staged the Libyan War in 1911. He was hotly accused by moderates and conservatives of "unconstitutional conduct in declaring war without the consent of Parliament," but nothing succeeds like success. After Socialist Giolitti had annexed administration of Libya, from Turkey by the Treaty of Ouchy, enthusiasm in Italy was such as to go a long way toward doubling the Socialist vote in Italy's next election...
...course, entitled History of Medieval, Renaissance and Modern Art, is one of the most outstandingly useful and important in the Department or in the College. Fleeting study is attempted of all the great masters and monuments since the Roman era, and Professor Opdycke's conduct of the course is masterly. There is no necessity, however, other than considerations of economy, for the compression of such significant subject matter into the scope of a single half-year. No course in the College could be more deserving of further attention, and few men would begrudge the extra hours spent in handling this...
...chosen Haydn's "Surprise Symphony" in G major to open the concerts in town this weekend. Following this with a decided contrast is the new Third Symphony of Nicolai Berezowsky. Mr. Berezowsky, who was born in Russia but has lived in the United States for several years, will conduct the work...