Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without record vote, the Senate approved a resolution by Senators Gerald P. Nye, (R) N. D., and Arthur Vandenburg, (R) Mich., authorizing appointment of a committee of seven by Vice-President John N. Garner to conduct the investigation...
...Cling tight to your sense of humour. . . . They make no special allowances for you when you dress like them. You will be like an actor in a foreign theatre, playing a part day and night for months, without rest, and for an anxious stake. . . . Do not think from their conduct that they are careless [about religion]. Their conviction of the truth of their faith, and its share in every act and thought and principle of their daily life is so intimate and intense as to be unconscious, unless roused by opposition. . . . Allusion is more effective than logical exposition; they dislike...
...shall make the race with no expectation of being elected. ... I will pay my own expenses, make no promises, kiss no babies, conduct myself like a gentleman and congratulate my successful opponent...
...responsible. New Yorkers knew him before as an opera conductor but in 1915 he tiffed with Giulio Gatti-Casazza, raged out of the Metropolitan and returned to Milan to give all his time to the Scala. No one thought he would accept when Clarence Mackay asked him to conduct the Philharmonic in 1926. And when he cabled that he would come, great was the trepidation among the musicians. He was a musical god, they had heard, a despot, a devil. He used no score even at rehearsal but he could detect the tiniest flaws. Once in Milan he had smashed...
...Last week a Wisconsin Legislative committee at Madison was winding up a series of investigations into the conduct of State hospitals for the insane. Samples of testimony offered by inmates, relatives, onetime attendants: ¶ Among attendants at Oshkosh's hospital, to "neck out" means to rope a wet towel around an inmate's neck, twist. On Jan. 26 an attendant "necked out" Inmate Oscar Schrader so thoroughly that he died. Five other Oshkosh deaths apparently resulted from brutal treatment. ¶ When Clark Lyman entered Mendota's hospital on Feb. 14, 1931 he was in good physical condition...