Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before Congress the President is apt to call Congressmen to the White House to confer. Last week he called not one conference, but one or more conferences a day. No less than 19 Senators went to the White House successively. It looked almost as if the President meant to conduct a seat by seat canvass of the Senate. He likewise delivered a long "background" talk to newshawks...
...comedians throughout the United Kingdom fairly itched to utter the words "Mrs. Simpson" in any connection whatsoever, and these British funsters were still itching without relief when, last week. Miss Joan Young, author of a British Broadcasting Corp. radio revue called Masculine Fame on Parade, took her place to conduct this performance. The B. B. C. Variety Orchestra struck up. Itching intolerably, Comedian John Rorke stood by waiting his cue while the chorus sang...
Premier General Hayashi lost no time in revealing the mailed fist. He insisted that civilian ministers resign their party affiliations before entering his Cabinet, thus ousting completely from the conduct of Japanese affairs the Empire's two great political parties, the Minseito (majority) and Seiyukal (minority). His second high-handed act was to get the Emperor to suspend the Diet throughout last fortnight...
Save for the fact that Toscanini does not want any concert to last more than an hour, arrangements so far were undetailed. It was not announced how much Toscanini would be paid, how many concerts he would conduct, or even where he would conduct them. Musical wiseacres were convinced, however, that the Toscanini-NBC broadcasts would be given on a tour which will encourage sales of his records made by RCA Victor, NBC's corporate cousin, which arranged a similar tour for Leopold Stokowski last spring (TIME, April 27), will send Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra on another...
...Wrote Mr. Doherty from his ten hospital rooms: "I would not have it thought that any payment made by me to settle the present situation could be considered in the slightest degree as an admission of any remissness. . . . [Our] organization is built up to manage properties and not to conduct litigation . . . moreover, no company is helped in the present state of public opinion by charges against its officers, no matter how unfounded...