Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present, to his regret, was the most celebrated member of the honorary, specially-formed "Hofmann Fifty-Year Club" of people who had heard the prodigy during his first months in the U. S. Franklin D. Roosevelt (six years younger than Josef Hofmann) was taken by his mother to hear Hofmann play in 1887, and, as Dr. Damrosch said gracefully as he introduced Pianist Hofmann at the Jubilee, the future President of the U. S. had asked: "Mother, if I practiced ever so hard could I be a great pianist like that when I grow up?" Added Dr. Damrosch...
Tonight, in the New Lecture Hall, at eight o'clock, the Vagabond will hear Dr. Chauncey Brewster Tinker, Sterling Professor of English Literature at Yale University, speak on "Gainsborough: The Return to Nature," in one of his Charles Eliot Norton lectures...
...critics like William Dunlap, by jealous naturalists like Alexander Wilson. Neither artists nor scientists liked or trusted his unseemly wedding of science with art; both avowed the result was properly neither. Audubon, who thought of himself as first a backwoodsman, then an artist, did not live to hear their paltry jibes drowned in the ringing praise a nation so often belatedly bestows on its foremost citizens...
...independent merchants and not covered by the Wagner Act. So last week junkmen began organizing a co-operative junk yard to ignore both wholesalers and retailers and sell direct to the mills. Hurt, the wholesaling members of Chicago's local Metal Institute retired to St. Joseph, Mich., to hear Milton Silverstein keynote their convention on "Playing the Game...
...Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and Astronomer Harlow Shapley, all of whom attended the Fair. Since no fine horizontal line was drawn to distinguish low from high brow, nor a vertical one to set the boundary between Right and Left, listeners at New York's Book Fair could hear New Masses Editor Joseph Freeman as well as Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, profane, pugnacious Novelist James Farrell as well as amiable, yea-saying Dr. William Lyon Phelps. So many had listened to them at the end of the first week, despite repeated demonstrations that many were far better writers than talkers, that...