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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Musicraft. Last February Musicraft Records, Inc. was the first of the three new little firms on the market with such discs. A youngish Manhattan lawyer named Milton L. Rein and a music teacher named Henry Cohen formed the firm, took in Herman Adler, a musical researcher from Germany, as digger-in-chief for recordable works...
...Boyce works are melodious, inventive, contrapuntally ingenious. They were conducted by Mr. Waldman's part-time associate, Max Goberman, onetime pupil of Leopold Auer, onetime violinist in the Philadelphia Orchestra, at present assistant concertmaster in Andre Kostelanetz' radio orchestra. Messrs. Waldman and Goberman declare that their firm, which will issue an old and a new work every month (first new one: two octets by Dmitri Shostakovich), will put profits, if any, into the making of more & better discs...
...writing to such book stores as he sees fit. This is not all. Constant pressure on the members of the Faculty over a period of years has resulted in a large number of them either giving their lists exclusively to the Harvard Cooperative Society or sending that firm advance notice of the books to be used in their courses. By this means the Coop has been given a monopoly position in the new and secondhand book market in Harvard Square, and the undergraduate is paying the price...
...banana plant in the State of Washington is a Republican in the high councils of the New Deal, but such is Mr. Ross. A utility expert who expressed hearty "disapproval of Franklin Roosevelt's early ideas on power distribution, he nonetheless became Franklin Roosevelt's firm friend, was appointed by him two years ago to the Securities & Exchange Commission. Last week Republican Ross resigned from the SEC to take a bigger job offered by Democrat Roosevelt-the administration of the Federal Government's big Bonneville hydroelectric project in Oregon...
Serving only on the Herald board, Frank Shutts will have more time for his legal firm, Shutts & Bowen, one of the largest in the South. At 40, Mr. Shutts had settled down in Aurora, Ind. as lawyer and weekly paper publisher, a "leading citizen" in a quiet Ohio river town. His life took an unexpected twist when the bankrupt Miami News-Record imported...