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Inside Carnarvon Castle its loyal guards were taking steps. Slowly and with difficulty they managed to tear the Dragon down, and hoist the Jack. Cheering ceased...
...think I am worth it. I make decisions for you?perhaps one decision in six months?and that's what I am paid for. . . . Don't get the hired man habit." Implicitly Biographer Gardner tells the story of the poor boy who disliked being an underdog strongly enough to hoist himself to the top of the pile, and thereafter beckoned others to follow...
ciety in a special concert in honor of Gustav Hoist, noted composer who is visiting Harvard and Radcliffe this half-year. It is expected that the visitor will conduct some of his works during the performance, in which instrumentalists from the Boston Symphony Orchestra will assist. This concert probably will be held in Sanders Theatre on April...
First on the program will come Bach's suite No. 2 in B minor, for flutes and strings. Following this Dr. Hoist will lead the Boston musicians in a rendition of the Ballet from his opera, "The Perfect Fool". Dr. Hoist conducted the Orchestra in the first American performance of this in Symphony Hall three weeks ago. He composed it in 1921, writing the words and score of the opera. The composer's greatest work is a suite entitled "The Planets", which he may play at a future Cambridge concert. The concert will close with Tehaikously's Symphony...
...Senate Finance Committee, were three leading Democrats left in Washington last fortnight. A few days before the year's end the Press obtained from them some sketchy hints which were immediately reported as the Democratic Tax Plan. Chief features: Make the "entrenched rich" bear the load; hoist the surtaxes; repeal the section on capital gains & losses (under which many a citizen was hoping, with mostly losses to report, to cut his 1931 tax to practically nil). Quickly the Treasury (Undersecretary Mills speaking) Hayed the Democrats for planning to "soak the rich." With equal promptitude, stocky, ruddy little Speaker Garner...