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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pledge to boycott German goods, boats and territory are being rounded up by a committee suggested by Christopher T. Emmet Jr. of Stony Brook, L. I., headed by Dr. William Jay Schieffelin of Manhattan's Citizens' Union, assisted by Presidents Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College and Frank P. Graham of University of North Carolina, President Oliver La Farge of the American Association on Indian Affairs, Editor Guy Emery Shipler of the Churchman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pressure Groups | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Attorney General Frank Murphy, whose sister calls him Christlike, last week named the man to run his new Civil Liberties Unit: Henry A. Schweinhaut, the special assistant who prosecuted civil-liberties violations in Harlan County, Ky. and in Jersey City. Besides protecting liberty's delicate flower, Mr. Murphy last week received the grubbier task of rooting evil weeds out of the Federal judiciary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Flower and Weeds | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...announcing. First feature was silvery Edwin Franko Goldman's cornety band. When the program was a half-year old, Canadian Conductor Rosario Bourdon took over, be gan making the Cities Service hour the big-time show it is today. He handed the baton over last February to Dr.* Frank Jeremiah Black, an old timer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Old Timer | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...Frank Black will conduct the Cities Service hour 52 Friday nights. He will also continue to be NBC's musical director, conduct the RCA Magic Key concerts Sunday afternoons, run his NBC string symphony this summer, oversee NBC's vast music library, dash off arrangement - popular or high-brow - which are the envy of the profession. For all this he will collect some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Old Timer | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...whimsical, greying man of 44, Philadelphia-born Frank Jeremiah Black can look back through his heavy horn-rimmed cheaters on 25 adventurous years in music As a boy he played the piano in a nickelodeon. University of Pennsylvania turned him out a chemist, but piano-pounding in a Harrisburg hotel offered better money. From then on he stuck to music, studied under Organist Charles Maskill and Pianist Rafael Joseffy, applied this talent to writing vaudeville songs, editing for a Philadelphia music publisher, and running his own player piano roll company. He used to pound rolls out by the yard, under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Old Timer | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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