Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have made valiant efforts to keep Japanese-sponsored currency at par with the British and U S-supported Chinese dollar, this was as serious as a big defeat on the battlefield Many a Chinese coolie, farmer or worker in Japanese "conquered" territory has even on pain of death preferred the "harder" Chinese money, which could be changed at any time to western currency, to the yen which could not. Last week's events made them even more likely to continue this preference. For some 40,000 Japanese civilians and thousands of Army men who have thrown money about...
...Life and Death of an American (by George Sklar; produced by the Federal Theatre Project) tells the story of Jerry Dorgan, supposedly the first U. S. baby born in 1900. The play spans the same period and dramatizes many of the same events as The American Way; but Jerry is a worker's son and his story is no paean to the democratic formula. An indignant protest against a system which creates and cannot, cope with poverty and unemployment, it ends bitterly with Jerry killed during a strike...
...Choir dates from 1898. Its founder was a rapt, indefatigable German-American named J. Fred Wolle who slaved for two years to train local steelworkers and shopkeepers for their first public performance in 1900 of Bach's prodigious B Minor Mass. He conducted every Festival thereafter until his death in 1933, achieved such marvels of choral attack and expression that Bethlehem became almost as famous for singing as for steel. Guarantors who helped him with the annual Festival included Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Charles M. Schwab...
After 1933, Director Bruce Carey had the undertow of Founder Wolle's death to fight against, and had to do his directing as a part-time commuting job. Whether justified or not, there were rumors of a decline in the choir's quality. Last summer the guarantors appointed a full-time resident director-black-haired, bespectacled Ifor Jones, 39, a Welsh-born organist and choir master...
...week were 6,000 delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention, meeting in Oklahoma City, Okla. In a "pronouncement on religious liberty," the Convention protested against: 1) Roosevelt's sending Joseph P. Kennedy as his personal representative to the coronation of Pope Pius XII; 2) adjourning Congress at the death of Pius XI; 3) "the employment of any of the branches of our national defense in connection with religious services."* Three Southern Senators signed the protest: North Carolina's Bailey, Georgia's George, Kentucky's Logan...