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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bawdy ditties or rousing marches, but strange and awesome chants. This lyricism, now solo, now antiphonal, now choral, is a poetic, formalized utterance. The diction is abominable-words can only be guessed at-but the import of these Gaelic spirituals can be felt. Mystic and throbbing, they express the soldiers' gruesome mission and man's revolt from the ghastliness he has made for himself...
...General Motors owns a two-fifths and so practically controlling interest in Fokker Aircraft; 2) the other major owner of Fokker Aircraft is Western Air Express whose president Harris M. Hanshue (also Fokker's president) was in Manhattan last week arranging a 36-hour all-air transcontinental service with Graham Bethune Grosvenor, president of The Aviation Corp. The Aviation Corp., through its subsidiary Universal Aviation Corp. flies from Cleveland to Kansas City. Western Air Express flies from Kansas City to Los Angeles and thence to San Francisco. The project is to extend Universal passenger services eastward to Manhattan...
...Pathetic Symphony is a strong rock to which any type of concert cancling and be sure of success. Nowhere else did Tschalkowsky so overwhelmingly give forth the somber Russion feeling, and at the same time express the sadness of the world. The work is pregnant with the gloom of Schopenhauer and the whole nineteenth century on the Continent; but its mood is one that seizes the present too, and shouts the futility of human striving. There are few works in music more universally moving...
...wiping out of some air mail routes. Mr. Brown himself indicated that last week. Said he to the Washington Advertising Club: "My own judgment is that the Federal Government should concentrate its exceptional aid on a few natural transportation routes which have been traveled by ox team, pony express, railroad, automobile and airplane, because people and commodities have naturally traveled over such routes since white men came to America...
...Including Harris M. Hanshue and James G. Woolley, Western Air Express; L. H. Mueller, Varney Air Lines; Col. M. H. Britten, Northwest Airways; Paul Henderson and Lester D. Seymour, National Air Transport; Phil Johnson, Boeing Air Transport; George Schierberg, Robertson Aircraft Corp.; Gen. John F. O'Ryan and James A. Walsh, Colonial Air Transport; Clifford Ball, Clifford Ball Air Lines; Hainer Hinshaw, Universal Air Lines; Alex H. Beard, Continental Air Lines...