Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Such folk do not believe in the redistribution of wealth, in Title II of the Banking Bill (government-controlled central bank), in AAA crop restriction. Hence John Nance Garner is much closer in economic views to Carter Glass than to Franklin Roosevelt. In fact, when Garner was in the House he favored budget balancing and government economy. Nearest he got to New Deal financial views was when as Speaker he went on record for a public works program of a billion or two-and for that the Republicans booed him loudly (TIME, June...
...East, editors scrabbled desperately through lean morgue folders for facts to show their readers just what calibre folk the Weyerhaeusers are. But in that vast quarter of the Union from St. Paul to Seattle the name needed no exposition. There the abduction of George, great-grandson of Frederick Weyerhaeuser, caused the same kind of sensation the East would feel if Miles, great-grandson of J. Pierpont Morgan, were snatched. For the Weyerhaeusers are the royal family of the U.S. lumber business. Their kingdom, sprawled from Wisconsin to Washington, is a broad 3,000 square miles of the country...
With William G. Kirby '35 conducting, the Glee Club will give its last Yard Concert of the year on the steps of Widener. The program will include the Chorus and Finale from "Die Meistersinger" by Richard Wagner, Three Love Songs of Brahms, "Spanish Ladies," an old English Folk Song. The soloist in this selection will be Robert L. Bishop...
Another old English Folk Song, "Brennan on the Moor," will follow. Nixon deTarnowsky '35 is the soloist in this song. The choruses from Sir Arthur Sullivan's "Iolanthe" (first and second sets.) Various college songs closed the previously announced program, but "Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite" by Brahms was added as the final number by request...
Bach, "To Thee Alone Be Glory" (Cantata 41); Morley, My Bonny Lass; Brahms, Two Love Songs from Opus 65; Sullivan, Choruses from "Iolanthe" (second set); English Folk Song, Brennan On The Moor; Wagner, Chorale and Finale from "Die Meistersinger"; College Songs...