Word: june
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worth of its own bonds for special investment accounts, largely in connection with pension and social security measures, the Treasury will not have to resort to public financing. Indeed, the National debt in the hands of the public will probably be smaller at the end of next June than last June...
...customary for U. S. Supreme Court Justices not to participate in decisions in which they have a personal interest. This week the Court refused to review, the 75-year prison sentence imposed on Scottsboro Boy Haywood Patterson, affirmed by the Alabama Supreme Court last June. In announcing its decision, the Court noted without comment that onetime Ku Klux Klanner Hugo LaFayette Black "took no part in the consideration and decision...
Thus went I've Got the Tune, written and composed for Columbia's Workshop by Marc Blitzstein, whose The Cradle Will Rock rocked the WPA Federal Theatre in Manhattan last spring (TIME, June 28), will be put on Broadway this fall on a number of Sunday nights. I've Got the Tune, with Composer Blitzstein singing the role of Mr. Musiker, was his and the Workshop's first venture in radio operetta. For some listeners, Blitzstein's mocking libretto was not without class-conscious implications, even his wiry-muscled music suggesting the notion voiced...
Gamut. Daniel Wolfert, 23, a teacher of the history and appreciation of music at Brooklyn College, launched Gamut Records last June. By last week some three dozen dealers (mostly in Manhattan) were handling Gamut discs. Music Lover Wolfert does his own choosing of records and directing. Best Gamut record to date is a Bach Partita, one of 19 keyboard collections of the prolific German, played on the harpsichord by Dr. Wolff...
Davis Merwin last week took his doctor's advice, resigned as publisher of the Minneapolis Star, prepared to go on a long holiday in the tropics beginning with a Caribbean cruise. Since June 1935, when Des Moines's Brothers John & Gardner Cowles Jr. paid $1,000,000 for the Star and hired their intimate friend Dave Merwin to run it, the Star's weak 80,000 circulation has been pushed to 135,000. Previously publisher of the strong little Bloomington (Ill.) Pantagraph which has been in his family 101 years, Dave Merwin made a place...