Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statutes under which the bonds were issued." Diminished by one, when Hugo LaFayette Black replaced Willis Van Devanter, the Court's conservative minority dissented as sharply this week as it did in 1935. Said explosive Justice James Clark McReynolds for the minority: "If you will look at the Eighth Commandment [Thou shalt not steal] you will find it difficult to reconcile with it what has been done here today. ... In 1917 we had war. The Government . . . offered the best investment on earth, the promise to pay in gold coin. It continued to do this for ten years. Then...
...forests some 30 mi. north of the capital, not expecting a visit from even one of his five married daughters. Yet for him his 72nd birthday will be more important than his work. A good part of his day will be spent "working in undisturbed peace." His Eighth Symphony, for which the world has been waiting twelve years, is drawing towards completion. So perhaps is his life's work. As a level-headed countryman, he knows that, having passed three score and ten, none of his remaining vigor need be spared for fripperies. At 72, important tasks still remain...
...next symphony will be finished, he replies with regretful, laconic shrug: "I, Sphinx." There are grounds to suspect that he has quantities of early unpublished compositions stored about the house, that he has already outlined the movements of a Ninth Symphony in addition to those of his forthcoming Eighth. A visitor's inquisitiveness invariably brings the same Finnish shrug, the favorite, inevitable reply...
...Koussevitsky has announced for the eighth pair of concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra next Friday afternoon and Saturday evening, the Third Symphony by Edward Burlingame Hill '94, a new score which is to be heard for the first time and performed from the manuscript...
...When James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney fought William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey to defend his world's heavyweight championship in 1927, he got $990,000, Dempsey $425,000. Dempsey now prospers as the head of a big, bustling restaurant on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue. Tunney prospers in a different way. In 1928 he married Polly Lauder, a Greenwich, Conn, steel heiress, took up Shakespeare, began making friends with businessmen and bankers. Soon he was a corporation director sitting on the boards of companies like New York Shipbuilding Corp. Last week he was elected director of another-Morris Plan Industrial Bank...