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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Alexander Kerensky, whose tremulous Provisional Government was overthrown by Lenin and friends in November 1917, visited the U. S. eleven years ago, people were surprised to find he was still alive. He predicted hopefully that the Communists would be overthrown within two years. Last week he visited the U. S. again. People were surprised to find he was still alive. Asked by reporters when he expected the Communists to be overthrown, he replied: "I am no prophet...
...spades to most of his contemporaries. In 1936 he was to have introduced one of his larger compositions at a London broadcast, but the death of King George V caused the British Broadcasting Corp. to ask for more appropriate music. Hindemith, who was to appear as viola soloist, could find nothing appropriate to play. Two days before the broadcast he gave up the search, decided to compose something himself for the occasion. Result: his Funeral Music, composed in a single...
...resolution ducking a commitment on specific Federal aid legislation until after study of the Reeves Committee's full report, not yet published. Unappeased, Professor Strayer strode to the auditorium platform to again demand "separation of Church and State," boomed: "If this movement develops sufficient strength, we may find ourselves in the not distant future committed to a program which will deny to the people the control of their schools." But he made no effort to amend the resolution. At the week's end as the harassed leaders of the National Education Association prepared to draft a bill...
Accurate Gold Coast figures have always been as hard to find as Dr. Livingstone. How much cocoa was being burned, no one knew, not even Mr. Winfried Musa Tete-Ansa, managing director of the Gold Coast and Ashanti Farmers Union, who last week was in Manhattan and available for questioning. Guesses ran from 500 tons to 5,000. Mr. Tete-Ansa himself has advised his farmers to burn "at least 40,000 tons." Last week the price was down to 6? a pound. Whether or not great quantities had been burned since October, only 44,000 tons of Gold Coast...
...anti-foreign alarmists in general Author Seabrook wags his finger: "You can find more 'parlor reds' per capita in Harvard, Smith, Vassar, Barnard . . . than you can find actual revolutionists among any foreign-language race group in America. . . ., The Melting Pot is a real thing. It boils and bubbles. It gives off a lot of steam and some scum, but what remains is a good conglomerate...