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...Concerto Grosso for a String Orchestra in F Major" as the first number. This will be followed by Griffes "Poem for Flute and Orchestra", a new work, for which Georges Laurent, a regular member of the orchestra, will carry the solo parts. Next on the program will be "Daybreak" and Siegfried's "Rhine Journey," excerpts from Wagner's famous opera "Die Gotterdammenung," Sibelius' "Symphony No. 2 in 11 Major," one of the best known of the Finnish composer's symphonic pieces will conclude the program...
...Republican National Committee. But the one thing he most wanted, the mayoralty of Philadelphia, he never got. Quay's enemies kept Penrose from the nomination (which meant a sure election) by threatening to give the newspapers a photograph of Penrose leaving a well-known bawdy-house at daybreak...
...seen David Blackstone, a strapping Negro hot tamale peddler, and inquired: "How come you cut your hand, Hot Tamale?" whereupon Blackstone had begun to shake from head to foot. The other informer gave the police a pistol, said it had come from Blackstone's landlord. Before daybreak Blackstone had been arrested with Fred Smith, white ex-convict. All day they withstood questioning, finally broke down and confessed...
...daybreak off Santa Cruz the Vasco da Gama banged away, first with its eight-inch, then with its six-inch, then with its four-inch gun. Under this lopsided bombardment troops were landed, rebel soldiers fell back on Funchal. No visiting Briton was even pinked. Two days later rebel General Souza Dias surrendered to loyal Commandante Correia...
...fleet's maneuvers off Haiti (TIME, March 24). Umpire of that theoretical conflict was Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder, whose criticisms of the Navy put him on the "waiting orders" list for months (TIME, Oct. 3, 1927). Scouting planes from the Lexington located the Saratoga and Langley just after daybreak while their flight decks were filled with aircraft. Admiral Magruder ruled that the Lexington planes damaged the Saratoga's flight deck which was later destroyed by bombers from the Lexington. Likewise the Langley was put out of commission before her planes could rise and fight...