Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Myrtle Michos' restaurant. Mrs. Michos sent for Willis R. Willey, 48, a huge, hairy farmer of Spokane, Wash., who is famed in the Northwest for his consistent refusal to wear anything but a sun visor and shorts. Last week a mixed jury found Farmer Willey guilty of disorderly conduct. His offense: Walking up & down beside the woman picket to embarrass...
...shifted to General Johnson and NRA, leaving Dr. Moley no more important as an active adviser than a dozen other sub-Cabinet officials. When Secretary Hull got back from London all primed to resign, President Roosevelt pacified him by transferring Assistant Secretary Moley to the Department of Justice to conduct a crime survey. As the State Department was obviously not big enough for both men, the President decided Dr. Moley was the least essential...
...muckraking expedition will Lord MacMillan conduct. Last week in Vancouver, when raucous Barrister McGeer implied that the Commission was being paid to entrench the established banking system in Canada, the Scots Lord dropped his tactful manner, declared it "a monstrous suggestion." (The Commission gets no pay, only expenses.) Chief problem before the Commission is whether to recommend establishment of a central bank in Canada. "Nationalization of credit" and other radical experiments are not likely to appeal to its economically cautious members...
...Manhattan the Philharmonic Symphony invited Iturbi to guest-conduct it in a concert in Lewisohn Stadium. Eagerly he agreed, for there is one musician in the world whom he idolizes: Arturo Toscanini. An audience that filled all but the extreme end seats turned out to see what this black-haired, electric little maestro of the piano bench could do with a baton in his hand...
...dabbler, Iturbi plunged into a program fit to give his hearers an honest test of his ability. He announced that he would begin with two Wagner numbers, Overture to Tannhduser and Prelude to Act i of Lohengrin, then simultaneously play the piano solo and conduct Beethoven's Third Concerto in C Minor, before winding up with the Eroica...