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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime the Federal Government got busy, put 14 Government auditors on the books and records of the Insull companies hunting for crime, had photostatic copies made of numberless letters, envelops and documents. In February 1933, after five months' work, the U. S. got an indictment against Samuel Insull et al. The "al." included Sam Jr., Martin and 16 of their associates and friends. The charge was using the mails to defraud; that is, selling the securities of Corporation Securities Co. through the mails as "a good safe and sound investment," whereas they knew the securities were not as represented...
...played at the Festival of American Music which Howard Hanson (Merry Mount) puts on each spring at Rochester, N. Y. More, the proud New York Philharmonic announced last week that Werner Janssen would be one of its conductors next season. In its Save-Our- Symphony campaign (TIME, May 7 et ante) there had bobbed up many a contributor who wanted to know more about what U. S. composers were accomplishing. To that end Werner Janssen was signed up to serve with such established European conductors as Arturo Toscanini, Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer. Rochester was unwilling to commit itself on Dixie...
...scornful disbeliever in the Communist theory that Art must be Propaganda, Author Eastman is a Communist first but a literary man all the time. He says Lenin also thought it nonsense that bureaucrats should interfere with art. After listing the slogans ("Art is to be wielded as a weapon" et al.} of the [Communist] Artists' International, Eastman explodes: "Could any set of ideas more neatly summarize the attitude of the vicariously infantile and office-holding bigot who calls himself the proletariat, not because he feels with or for the members of the working class, but because it swells...
PRODIGAL DAYS-Evelyn Nesbit-Messner ($2.50). The bone of contention between Harry K. Thaw and the late Stanford White tells all to the public. THE POEMS OF RICHARD ALDINGTON- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Collected poems: The Eaten Heart, A Dream in the Luxembourg, et al.; some new ones. A CHILD WENT FORTH-Helen MacKnight Doyle, M. D.-Gotham House ($3). Autobiography of a woman doctor in the West, famed as a U. S. pioneer in her profession. THE ROMANCE OF LABRADOR-Sir Wilfred Grenfell-Macmillan ($4). Famed missionary-doctor looks at the past, present and future of his adopted country...
...principle of "divide et impera" is to guide the economics of the Conant Plan, why should it not be tried in the educational sphere? Is the new and versatile faculty man, intent on making Harvard a national university by developing the talents of the scholar-group of students, to waste his energies, in the age-old way, prodding the "Harvard Community" along. The traditional compromise in lecture hall and class room between the tortoise and the rabbit must be abandoned...