Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Irving G. Fine 1G, of Brookline, First Accompanist of the Glee Club, will conduct the singers. Edward L. Barnes '38 will direct all the undergraduates in the closing football songs...
Mohamet Koko di Korese is a 27-year-old Ethiopian who. having entered the U. S. illegally in 1926, promptly devoted himself so wholeheartedly to drunkenness, disorderly conduct and burglary that he served three terms in jail. Last January, the Department of Labor decided to deport Mohamet Koko di Korese. Since the Ethiopian Government no longer exists, it was necessary to apply to the Italian Consulate for his travel documents, thus, in effect, recognizing Italian sovereignty over Ethiopia. Last week, two Ellis Island guards tucked Mohamet Koko di Korese in a third class cabin on the Rex, booked, via Italy...
...subtle, apparently uncontrolled, as in England. With the stupidity of a Hitler, a Stalin or a Mussolini, President Franco by decree subordinated all Rightist Spanish news-organs to his Government last week. Under Article 17 of the new law the Government "shall have the power to punish administratively any conduct which directly or indirectly tends to hurt the prestige of the Nation or of this Regime, obstructs the work of the Government of the new State, or sows pernicious ideas among weak intellects." Thus were the wings of every Rightist Spanish newspaperman officially clipped...
...statute is not a 'death sentence.' On the contrary it holds the promise of a long life and a happy one. It substitutes order for chaos. ... We are ready and willing at all times to advise and help the industry in working out its problems and to conduct ourselves reasonably and practically...
Principal reasons for the dearth of famous U. S.-born maestros have been: 1) a lack of places where the young U. S. conductor can cut his teeth; 2) snobbishness. In Germany, where conducting is as specialized a profession as brain surgery, conductors are systematically trained and systematically advanced in their careers. The neophyte, having mastered several musical instruments and taken a complete course in musical composition, enters a conductors' class at the konservatorium, where he studies the symphonic and operatic classics and learns how to shake a stick at an orchestra. Then he graduates. But that is only...