Word: conning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lawyers, the most articulate group in the U. S. Business community, have long been leading critics (partly pro, but mostly con) of the New Deal. Last week about 5,000 of the country's 175,000 lawyers attended the annual convention of the American Bar Association in Cleveland. At the opening session, the A. B. A.'s outgoing president. Arthur T. Vanderbilt of Newark, dwelt on "the outstanding legal development of the 20th Century" - the Federal Government's quasi-judicial administrative agencies, such as the Securities & Exchange Commission, the National Labor Relations Board...
...Batopilas, where in the evenings they promenaded around the plaza with the young men of the town, while the band played and the young ladies eyed their admirers. They danced, trained fighting cocks, learned to drink. Sometimes they got into little scrapes with the police or the townspeople: when Con Shepherd tried to jump his horse over the drummer in the band, and landed in the bass drum; when Grant knocked down a Mexican policeman. But such pranks hurt nobody; the Americans were popular, President Porfirio Diaz maintained order in the land. The Shepherd girls grew up and married Americans...
Fortnight ago, the price of domestic copper took another drop, from 10? to 9? a pound. Last week, Mountain Con, one of the two U. S. air-conditioned copper mines, and the Belmont, both at Butte, Mont., were shut down by Anaconda Copper Mining Co. To Anaconda, world's largest producer of copper, the domestic price cut symbolized U. S. Depression. It also marked another downswing in another copper cycle...
Ernst Hoffmann. '18, Guest Conductor "Cruiser Harvard," MarchStrube *Overture to "Oberon" Weber *Three German Dances Mozart *Symphony No. 5, "From the New World," Allegro con fuoco Dvorak G. Wallace Woodworth, '24, Guest Conductor Music for Freemasons Mozart Soloist Joseph E. Lautner Tarantella Randall Thompson, '20 Cannon: "O Due Eselhafter Martin" Mozart Symphony No. 2, Final Randall Thompson, '20 *Choruses from the Yeomen of the Guard Sullivan Soloist: D. P. MacAllester, '38 The Harvard Glee Club Leroy Anderson, '29, Guest Conductor *Dance of the Buffoons, From "Snow Maiden" Rimsky-Korsakov *"Vienna Life," Waltzes Strauss *Harvard Fantasy Leroy Anderson, '29 Fair Harvard...
...from the "Caucasian Sketches" Ippelitov-Ivanov *Overture to "Mignon" Thomas *Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" Debussy *Fifth Hungarian Dance Brahms *Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1 Grieg Morning Mood-Anitra's Dance-In the Hall of the Troll King *Londonderry Air Arranged by Sir Hamilton Harty *Finale (Allegro con fuoco), Fourth Symphony Tchaikovsky *The Chocolate Soldier, Selection Oscar Strauss *The Old Refrain Kreisler *March, "Indigo" from "1001 Nights" Johann Strauss *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Musle Store, Harvard Square...