Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regular conductor. With a fervor and concentration worthy of the music Arturo Toscanini gave the Missa Solemnis last week its first performance by the New York Philharmonic, the first he has ever conducted. For the occasion he had 250 choristers from the New York Schola Cantorum and four expert soloists-Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg, Contralto Sigrid Onegin, Tenor Paul Althouse, Basso Ezio Pinza. Toscanini sang croakingly along with them but there were no complaints. The little Italian had never seemed so inspired as in the exalted Gloria, the prayerful Agnus...
Washington, March 15 -- Predictions that L. W. Robert, Jr., Atlanta, Georgia building expert, would resign soon as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury were revived today when President Roosevelt, by executive order, removed him from the special board of public works, and substituted Rear Admiral Christian Joy Peoples as the treasury representative on that body...
...appears on the surface that this particular questionnaire is both sober and scientific, and that its authors have had expert advice in handling the material. That is as it should be. But there is, beyond this, much that is alarming. Even in competent and trustworthy hands, a matter of this sort is, to put it mildly, dynamite. The statistics are likely to be incomplete and therefore liable to misconstruction. If they are released to the press, one can scarcely conjecture what the effect will...
Behind the footlights of the stage is offered a revue featuring a cast of radio, musical comedy and vaudeville stars. Topping the cast is the radio team of Sims and Baily, and former noted for his expert manipulation of the piano keys and the latter for her rendition of popular tunes...
Last week Henry Herbermann was unceremoniously ousted from the presidency of his company. The Shipping Board's credit expert, appointed to investigate lines in debt to the Government, had decided that Export needed a thorough shakeup. Summoned was brusque William Hugh Coverdale, financial engineer, president of Canada Steamship Lines, to take the presidency of Export. Exporter Herbermann was made vice president, will cooperate with the new management in paying off the loans he contracted...