Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin last week mulled the problem of filling the hole in his "National" Government made by Secretary of State for the Colonies James Henry ("Jim") Thomas' resignation after last April's scandalous Budget leak (TIME, June 1 et ante). Jim Thomas, after a week's brooding, returned the seals of the Colonial Office to King Edward VIII. A few hours later his son Leslie Thomas, whose clients had made a killing by insuring themselves against tax rises in the Budget, resigned from the Stock Exchange firm of Belisha & Co. This week, however, a court...
Last February's election victory in Spain of the Communist and Socialist United Front was followed by a moderate Left Government and a radical Left rash of riots and arsons (TIME, March 30 et ante). In France last month's Popular Front election victory was followed last week, in precisely the same pattern, by Left-wing direct action, designed to compromise Socialist Leon Blum on the eve of his premiership. In France it took the form of an epidemic of "folded arms" strikes or "lock-ins" in munitions, airplane and automobile factories...
Christ's Court. During the past two years, Fundamentalist Machen and a handful of his followers have defied the Presbyterian Assembly by belonging to the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions (TIME, April 23, 1934, et seq.) Tried and in most cases convicted by local presbyteries, they repeatedly appealed until last week they were before the bar of the Church's highest tribunal- the Assembly, sitting as a "Court of Jesus Christ" and voting upon preliminary decisions made by the Permanent Judicial Commission whose head is Minnesota's Supreme Court Justice Clifford L. Hilton. To the appeals...
With high hopes one evening last week hundreds of earnest music-lovers went to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, prepared to listen in all respect to a long-neglected masterpiece. Gluck's Orjeo et Eurydice, missing from the Metropolitan repertoire since 1914, had been promised as one of the highlights of the Popular Spring Season (TIME, May 25). The production was to be in a way experimental, with the singers placed in the orchestra pit while dancers from the American Ballet mimed their roles on the stage. Even among purists such a prospect aroused little concern. A similar...
...past seven years Conductor Arturo Toscanini, who dislikes mechanical music, has been steadfast in his refusal to make phonograph records. To him, his own performances always seemed short of perfection, hence unworthy of being perpetuated. During his last few months with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony (TIME, May 11 et ante), RCA Victor doubled its efforts to persuade him to change his mind, pleaded that he owed it to the public and posterity. The Maestro's "no" was unyielding until a friend suggested that he would be doing a real service to the composer he might interpret, that...