Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were so much raw meat, politicians in & out of Washington last week sank their teeth in the strange case of Major General Johnson Hagood who, for speaking flippantly of WPA, was fortnight ago summarily relieved of his command of the Eighth Corps Area and ordered to his home (TIME, March...
...Like all Army officers, Major General Johnson Hagood, Commander of the Eighth Corps Area, bridles when he thinks of how little the Army gets from the New Deal and how much other agencies get. Like most heavy artillerymen, General Hagood lacks neither brains nor tongue. Pleading for money for Army housing before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee last December, he spoke as follows: "[I am] not familiar with the various pockets in which Uncle Sam keeps his money [but I understand that] there is budget money which is very hard to get; there is PWA money which...
Glazounov's Eighth Symphony...
Glazounov's Eighth Symphony completes the program. This work, composed in 1906, is the last of the symphonies which the seventy-year old Russian has written. Unlike many of his countrymen, Glazounov does not give his music a pervasive tone of pessimism. Instead, he has acquired a spirit of optimism--a product no doubt of the comparatively easy and successful path along which the course of his life has run. To him, the problem in music is that of perfection, not of experimentation. B. G. Wells' description of the man who "walks backwards into the future" might easily be applied...
...Dodge Bros., to spend $11,000,000 on plant improvement, to give employes a cash bonus of $2,300,000 (on present payrolls, about $40 a man). Chrysler sold 843,000 cars to dealers for $516,800,000; sold about one-fourth of all U. S. passenger cars, one-eighth of all U. S. trucks. Chrysler declared a $1 dividend for the first quarter of 1936, compared to 75? for the fourth quarter...