Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council found that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters was "dominated, controlled, or substantially influenced in the conduct of its affairs by corrupt influences," gave the Teamsters 30 days to root out the influences or be suspended, i.e., if Hoffa is elected president, the Teamsters' suspension seems certain...
...Sept. 30), but Nkrumah is. Last week he tactfully gave ground. A lawyer down from London was allowed to challenge the expulsion of two Moslem opposition leaders. Contempt-of-court charges against a British newspaperman were dropped. Nkrumah pleaded for international sympathy: "Do not apply to us standards of conduct and efficiency which are often not attained in your own countries...
...Carnegie Corporation announced recently that it will sponsor a two-year $100,000 study of graduate education in the United States. Bernard Berelson, professor of Behavioral Sciences at the University of Chicago, will conduct the project...
...policy apparently officially opened the way for any operator, if he felt that he could conduct his stand more efficiently without the central agency, to decline participation. Operators will still be subject to the approval of the Master in each House, who could presumably "advise" participation...
Some of the best-known contemporary U.S. composers-Aaron Copland, Walter Piston, Roy Harris, Marc Blitzstein, Virgil Thomson-are tied to a woman's apron strings. The woman: their sometime teacher, Nadia Boulanger, for years head of the American Conservatory of Music at Fontainebleau, first woman to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra (as a guest in 1938), and the world's most renowned teacher of composition...