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According to Kelliher, however, all the finished survey needs to send it before the council is Meyer's signature. This would mean that the council could enact a new ordinance as early as next Monday. But the survey would probably be referred to a council committee for further study...
...tackled the gravest party scandal of all: he urged the President to see that all U.S. collectors of internal revenue are appointed through civil service instead of political pull. After listening to McKinney, Truman reversed his own stand of three weeks earlier, announced that he would ask Congress to enact the civil-service proposal into law next January...
...Emperor's Nightingale" tells the story of a poor little rich boy, shut off from the world outside his home and imprisoned in a room filled with amazing toys. Dreaming of the far off woods, he suddenly see his playthings come to life and enact the Anderson story...
...Went to Griffith Stadium to watch old-time ball players re-enact the last half-inning of the Washington Senators-New York Giants World Series game of Oct. 10, 1924. The President sat in the same box from which President Calvin Coolidge had watched the Senators win the original contest 4-3* and take their only World Series championship. Truman opened the affair (held before a regular New York Yankees-Washington game) by making a southpaw throw from the stands to 62-year-old Hank Gowdy, catcher for the Giants...
...Werner Egk, it deals with Columbus' journeys to America and has some mildly metaphysical ideas built into the libretto. But Berlin was less interested in the story than in the style. Composer Egk (rhymes with peck) has his principal singers stand inconspicuously beside the orchestra while ballet dancers enact the story. The chorus is posted behind gauze curtains...