Word: inge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stop Roosevelt? Chicago started fill ing up with Democrats even before it was emptied of Republicans. "We'll put on a show that will make the Republican shindig look like child's play," boasted Jouett Shouse, Washington headquarters director and candidate for the convention's permanent chairmanship. What promised to make the Democratic show thoroughly exciting was the paramount question: "Can Franklin Delano Roosevelt be stopped short of the nomination...
...Stimson letter was the announcement by the U. S. Government last January that it would recognize no treaty-violating spoils which Japan might wring from China as the result of current fighting. Now, however. Secretary Stimson invited other governments to take a similar position so that "a caveat [warn-ing] will be placed upon such action which, we believe, will effectively bar the legality hereafter of any title or right obtained by pressure or treaty violation . . . and will eventually lead to the restoration to China of rights and titles of which she may have been deprived." Few of the things...
Meanwhile Japan's militarism was mak ing trouble for Japan's business. The very day that troops were marching on Harbin and naval guns were bombarding the Whangpoo forts, Japanese bonds dropped to new lows in New York, prices crashed on the Tokyo stock exchange. The Yoko hama silk exchange, centre of one of Japan's most important industries, was forced to close. The Osaka sugar mills shut down last week, strangled by the Chinese boycott. By advice of old Prince Saionji no figures on the cost of Japan's military operations were allowed to ap pear...
...Professor Jerome who gave the miners dancing lessons. He played once in a brothel. He played in the first Paul Whiteman orchestra when jazz, unknown in the East, was starting its swift, insidious advance on the Barbary Coast. A good musician, a born improviser, he was soon mak-ing all the Whiteman arrangements. Whiteman commissioned George Gershwin to write him some music for a serious concert. Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue was a piano solo. Grofe scored...
Some of the members of the San Francisco Symphony have been quietly look-ing around this winter for new jobs. Reason: San Francisco's orchestra has felt Depression badly. Last winter it had to cut down its personnel. This season it started with a guaranty of only $75.000, as against $90.000 the year before, $105,000 in 1929-30. By December the orchestra was unable to meet its payroll. It looked as though it might not finish the season. Last week, though, things were brighter. The players got some of their back pay and a sweeping campaign...