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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Violinist Kreisler might have announced that he was commemorating the 50th anniversary of his U. S. debut. But his first Manhattan appearance of the season, which drew throngs to Carnegie Hall, was billed as just another concert. Concertgoers who went to hear him had long since ceased to expect prodigies of technique or tone from 63-year-old Kreisler. What they expected, and got, was an afternoon of leisurely, charming, old-school fiddling such as only Fritz Kreisler can put on. Kreisler's playing is to the exact, nervous fiddling of today what a Kentucky colonel...
Mass Meeting Drew...
Silently in Buckingham Palace the King-Emperor drew a sheet of parchment toward him, dipped pen and signed "George R. I." beneath a proclamation canceling last week the September "Crisis" Proclamation under which the Royal Navy was put under partial, later full mobilization. The new proclamation proclaimed: "His Majesty, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, doth hereby declare that a case of emergency no longer exists...
When Glenn Frank was made Chairman of a policy committee of the Republican Party, the public justifiably drew the conclusion that at long last glimmerings of liberalism were to be seen in the eye of the Grand Old Party. Recent election of many liberal Republicans apparently confirmed this impression. But around the dinner table just a short time ago there was transacted a bit of business which, if its full implications are realized, will throw real doubt on the proposition that the leopard has changed his spots...
...after ICC had disapproved linking it with the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Vans pulled off a slick deal in which Paine, Webber & Co. acted as dummy purchasers. A subsequent circumventing of legal requirements, whereby the Vans got RFC unwittingly to pay off an inter-company loan, drew an ICC examiner's admission that "we were made monkeys of. . . ." Last week ICC approved a reorganization plan for C. & E. I. that made monkeys of the late Van Sweringens' successors by slashing away nearly three-quarters of their 42.7% voting control...