Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...54th Attorney General of the U. S. last week held his "farewell" press conference. He reviewed his labors, which began with an opinion on the President's power to call a bank holiday, written personally, in penciled long hand, in the Library of Congress while his chief's first inaugural was in progress March 4, 1933. He recalled the hot legal battles of AAA and NRA; the building of the FBI from a sleuthing unit to an armed force with powers of arrest and a sharp-toothed Federal crime code behind it; the improvement of U. S. prisons...
...absence of Mr. Koussevitzky, who is on a holiday before his performance of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" next week, the Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts this afternoon and tomorrow night will be conducted by the Anglo-Belgian director, Mr. Eugene Goosens, known in this country for his work in Rochester and Cincinnati. Despite the obvious fact that Mr. Goosens waves the longest stick seen here in recent years, he is essentially a quiet conductor, in marked contrast to the Orchestra's other guests of late. And as leader of the Orchestra, he is firm and competent in securing what he wants...
...high. Automobile production for the week was 86,300 units, 6.270 more than the preceding week and 2,975 more than 1937's comparable week. Bank debits to individual accounts again showed a substantial increase and total money in circulation was at the highest level since the bank holiday...
PHILOSOPHER'S HOLIDAY-Irwin Edman-Viking...
Edman's own philosophy is a humanist cocktail whose chief ingredients are Plato, Santayana and Manhattan. It is the last component that shines, like a pickled cherry, out of Philosopher's Holiday, a tall, watery glassful of reminiscences, anecdotes and essays devoted to "persons and places, many of them obscure, about which I have occasionally told my friends over a glass of sherry. . . ." Son of a shirt & blouse manufacturer, Philosopher Edman still lives in the neighborhood where he was born and brought up, a stone's throw from Columbia University. He has "spent a long life...