Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inspecting Washington's District Jail,; golfing District of Columbia Commissioner George Edward Allen spied his Negro caddy in jail for disorderly conduct, obligingly paid the $3 fine necessary to effect his release...
...went home to Italy (TIME, May 11). The most beloved conductor living, he had worked with the Philharmonic for eleven seasons, taught it to play as perfectly as any orchestra in the world. But, at 69, Toscanini found continuous performances too great a strain. Thereafter he planned to conduct only occasionally, only in Europe...
...house of his old friend Toscanini. Cables and radiograms began to flick back & forth between Chotzinoff and Sarnoff and last week Mr. Sarnoff talked with Toscanini by transatlantic telephone. Next day the press carried exciting news that Toscanini was returning to the U. S. next December to conduct the NBC Orchestra in a national network series...
...Harvard: "The crammer should be sure that he goes to sleep immediately on putting down his books; an excursion to the restaurant with a newspaper might prove to be a fatal interruption in the cramming process. . . . He should take care that there are no violent changes in his conduct or thoughts...
...Andrew Johnson's appointees, William M. Evarts, left office saying: "I shall return to my business of farming and lawing and leave to the newspaper correspondents the conduct of affairs." Such great controversies as those over Federalism, the U. S. Bank, Dred Scott, Monopoly, Eugene V. Debs and Prohibition throw into relief the development and processes of government. These Messrs. Cummings & McFarland highlight. Emphasis and appreciable New Deal bias is placed on references by Presidents and great U. S. legalists to the Constitution and the Supreme Court. Associate Justice William Pater son: "The Constitution has been considered an accommodating...