Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...constantly at its command the services of a conductor who is also an adept soloist. Yet such an orchestra is the Detroit Symphony which last week made its annual visit to Manhattan. Detroit's double-barreled man is Ossip Gabrilowitsch, long famed as a pianist of the first order, famed since he began working in Detroit (1918) as an able conductor. His performance last week was to conduct Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach's brisk Concerto in D, followed with an uneven performance of Brahms' Fourth Symphony. Then, handing his baton to capable Victor Kolar, he seated himself...
...Howard College is first of all a church school owned and controlled by the Baptists of Alabama. . . . No teacher is employed in the institution who is not a professed Christian and with rare exception all of the teaching force belong to the Baptist faith. . . . The students take seriously the fact that Howard is a Christian college. . . ."-President John C. Dawson of Howard College in the college catalog. At Howard last week, up stood Horace Calvin Day, associate professor of biology, to demonstrate in a chapel talk to the students that perhaps the intellectual and the spiritual do not always embrace...
Before a railroad may build a new line, it must make application to its stern guardian, the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Commission may or may not look favorably on the petition of its ward. Last week for the first time the I.C.C., without waiting to be asked by a railroad, commanded the Union Pacific to build 185 miles of new line. This assumption that the Commission has positive as well as negative, executive as well as judicial power over the railroads of the land will probably be bitterly contested by the railroads...
Died. John Morrison Hansen, 56, Board Chairman of Standard Steel Car Co.; at La Rochelle, France; of apoplexy. In 1894 he designed the first steel freight...
Died. Richard Porter Ashe, 68, lawyer, sportsman, of the family for which Asheville, N. C., was named, nephew of famed Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, first husband of famed Aimee Crocker (now Princess Galitzine), owner of famed Racehorse Geraldine (46 sec. half mile, Chicago, 1891), discoverer of Boxer Jim Corbett, oldtime member of California's Bohemian Club; at San Francisco; of apoplexy...