Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leary. Thus the possibilities. Meanwhile, Banker John W. O'Leary, definitely suggested for leadership of the businessmen's group, remains a probability. Born in Chicago (1875), he is the son of an able ironmaster, to whose business he succeeded. He has been president of the O'Leary company since his father's death. Last week he became president also of Chicago Trust Co. In 1916, while president of the Chicago Association of Commerce, he organized, within 48 hours, the largest of the nation's pre-War preparedness parades. In 1925-26 he was president of the U. S. Chamber...
Investigation. But not all citizens of Wisconsin were saying it with flowers for the new Governor. It will be remembered that Mr. Kohler was elected in opposition to the powerful La Follette group which has for many a year controlled Wisconsin politics. Angry, the bitter-enders among the La Follette organization drew up a petition accusing Governor Kohler of having spent $104,000 on his campaign. As the Wisconsin law puts $4,000 as a maximum campaign expenditure, the petitioners sought to disqualify the Governor from office as a violator of the states's corrupt practices act. Among signers...
...present no opera in Manhattan for ten years. The nucleus of his troupe went to Chicago, developed into the Chicago Civic Opera of today, an organization devoted to Italian and French opera. The Metropolitan, unmolested, has stayed Italian and German. The paths of the two never cross. No new group has risen to threaten them. Wagner, thus, in the U. S. has stayed the prerogative of the Metropolitan. It has been given as the management believes the public wants it-cut and trimmed to make a comfortable afternoon or evening. But many an operagoer has been dissatisfied with the cuts...
...Boston's guest conductor. Thus are adjectives made to grow, for five years ago Honegger had been just a precocious fellow who at seven had composed two operas in the treble clef, as he knew no other, at eleven some 30 sonatas, in his twenties one of the Group of Six in Paris, blustering fellows, so many thought, organized to acquaint the public with their music. Now Honegger remains supreme of the Six. His wife. Pianist Andree Vaurabourg-Honegger, plays his compositions, last week played with him his delectable Concertino. Pacific 231 he now calls Boom! Boom! Rugby...
Stoll-MacCracken Siberian-Arctic Expedition, supported by Charles H. Stoll, Manhattan lawyer, collected some fine specimens of brown bear and the material for the Pacific Walrus Group to be placed in the Hall of Ocean Life...