Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vice President Garner's last acts before going off fishing last week was to name a crew of Senators to conduct, with colleagues from the House, the great fishing expedition called for by President Roosevelt in his message about millionaire tax-evaders (TIME, June 14). That this expedition, beginning this week, would not greatly enliven Washington's hottest weeks and not give the newspapers something very much better to talk about than strikes and the President's defeat on the Court Plan, observers suspected when Mr. Garner put Mississippi's urbane Pat Harrison at the head...
Selection of 123 graduates to serve as Commencement Day Aides and Marshals, assisting in the conduct of exercises and processions on Thursday, was announced today by Hugh L. Gaddis '12, of Cleveland, Ohio, Chief Marshal of the Alumni...
Pittsburgh is famed more for steel than for music. When the Pittsburgh Symphony gave its first concert eleven years ago, it was arrested for breaking the Sabbath. Four years later a home-town boy named Antonio Modarelli began to conduct. Modarelli had studied extensively in Germany, composed there two operas, Hanns Frei and Sakuntala. His Ocean Flight, a ballet-pantomime about Lindbergh helped make him the only American in the Society of German Composers...
...name Minsky has become associated in the public mind with indecent burlesque shows. It appears that the manner in which they would conduct the new enterprise, with its appeal to the lowest instincts of its patrons, would not in any way be changed from the old manner of producing burlesque shows." Thus New York License Commissioner Paul Moss, killer of burlesque (TIME, May 10), refused Brothers Morton and Herbert K. Minsky a license to present a "high class variety revue.'' Shouted Brother Morton: "We'll match our private lives with the Commissioner...
Violent protest against certain indecencies had been launched by Florence Hardy, President of Main Hall, whose latest bulletin, "On How to Conduct Yourself", claims that "the present situation has brought condemnation" on the Poughkeepsie elites "from all quarters...