Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following resolution was passed "Whereas Labor's Non-Partisan League in a step toward the formation of an instrument for the Independent political actions of labor, and whereas the immediate objective of labor's Non-PArtisdan League is the reelection of President Roosevelt., thereby preventing the election of a reactionary administration, therefore be it received that the Cambridge Union of University Teachers affiliate with labor's Non-Partisan League...
...Harvard is not described, nor is there any discussion of the place occupied by Calvin and the other French Reformers in the seventeenth century Harvard mind. But the essays do succeed admirably in suggesting the variety and the fruitfulness of the contacts between Harvard and French culture. Since an instrument of communication is the starting point for reciprocal knowledge, the history of the French language at Harvard, traced in considerable detail by Bernard Fay, forms an excellent background for the other essays. Professor Fay has utilized the Harvard College Archives to good advantage and tells an entertaining story...
Returning last week to Manhattan from a trip to her native Austria, Harpsichordist Yella Pessl had good news for those music lovers who like to hear 17th and 18th Century works on the instruments for which they were written. On its way from Munich was a fine new harpsichord, made by Karl Maendler, famed for his work with archaic instruments, on which she will record some more Bach, Händel, Purcell, old German Christmas songs for Columbia this week. Herr Maendler's aim in constructing from old Viennese cherry-wood this super-harpsichord was to eliminate the twangling...
...prevent the capture of a valuable liquor stock. She becomes notorious as the girl rumrunner, dresses expensively, always carries a telegram saying her husband has been hurt to explain her speeding when she is stopped. She sees a young, romantic descendant of an old Virginia family made the instrument for killing one of Halsey's enemies. She grows fond of a reckless college boy who runs liquor for the excitement until he is killed in a crash. But the strained, desperate life ends when Halsey turns against her, the gang breaks up. Halsey is killed...
...they put ham and cabbage first, If they can't get them under democracy, they will trans fer their affections and their spiritual val ues to other systems. The blunt fact is that our democracy must cleanse itself . . . if it is to fit itself to be an efficient instrument of social control." That, as it turned out, was just what practical President Eddy proposed...