Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last March First Lieutenant Francis J. Clark, U. S. Infantry, was convicted by court martial at Denver of intoxication, disorderly conduct, criminal assault. He was sentenced to be dismissed from the Army, imprisoned for six years. Reviewing the case as the Army's Commander-in-Chief, President Hoover found much hearsay evidence used to support the assault charge. Last week it was announced that the President had stricken the prison term from Clark's sentence, confirmed his dismissal...
...which turned into a prolonged infection. An ordinary felon (whitlow) is a skin or bone inflammation which usually lasts about three weeks. So long as the felon was "engaged in his employment, or maturing his felonious little plans," Pianist Schelling could play no solos. He could, however, and did, conduct the Saturday Philharmonic concerts for children, to whom he is known as "Uncle Ernest." Last season he tried a piano duet with Harold Bauer, exclaimed wryly afterwards that it was "tough going...
...combined again last week under the leadership of President Mortimer Norton Buckner of the Clearing House Association to launch the long-debated $50,000,000 Commodities Finance Corp. (TIME, Aug. 15). Though dubbed "the commodity pool" in its rumor stage, C. F. C. will purchase no commodities. It will conduct a financing business along strict banking lines. Banker Buckner defined its scope as "facilitating the financing of the purchase, carrying, and orderly marketing ... of agricultural and other commodities." Actual operations will be handled by two subsidiaries, one engaging solely in an acceptance business, the other lending to worthy companies...
Last June Albert Coates got a notable job: the general music directorship of the United Philharmonic Orchestras of the U. S. S. R. and musical directorship of the opera houses of Moscow and Leningrad. Last year Conductor Coates had plenty to do; he might conduct a Boris Godounov in Moscow one night, hurry off to rehearse in Leningrad the next morning. Next year he will be even busier. Besides working with the excellent orchestras and operas of Russia's two chief cities, he must improve the mediocre ones at Tiflis, Baku, Kiev, Kharkov, Svendlovsk, Stalingrad and possibly others...
...facts the orchestra needed money and that more people in Cleveland would pay to see a newsworthy conductor than would pay to hear the best music consistently produced by the same conductor. Audiences have been bigger when guest conductors came to Cleveland, like Sir Hamilton Harty (who will guest conduct during Conductor Sokoloff's customary mid-season absence this year), Enrique Fernandez Arbos of Madrid, Bernardino Molinari of Rome, and Composers Igor Stravinsky, Ottorino Respighi, Maurice Ravel, Ernest Bloch. Pointing out that "under the devoted and skillful guidance of its conductor, it has become a seasoned and matured organization...