Word: kettledrumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banks, indulged in high-pressure stock selling campaigns. And its 18,000 stockholders watched their investment fade from a high of $99 per share to about $3. Early in the New Deal, having noted the fun the Senate Banking & Currency Committee was having in Washington, Governor Olson began to kettledrum about how Northwestern investors had been swindled out of $100,000,000. Forthwith he ordered his commerce commission to investigate...
...play was first produced in Dublin last year, but the original score has been lost. The new rhythmic score, which is being written for incidental songs and choral chants, is to be played by percussion instruments exclusively, with a kettledrum bearing the main burden. The chorus is composed of two divisions of eight men, and is being provided by the Glee Club...
Vladimir Munck, as his name indicated, was an American, but he was also and primarily a musician. His father started him playing the kettledrum when he was 4; later he went abroad to study piano. He worked hard, returned to the U. S. and began to make a name for himself as a pianist. At the height of his Manhattan success Tycoon Rothstein came to Munck with a great idea: to make Manhattan music's acknowledged world capital by building and endowing a Lyceum of Music, with Munck as musical director. After many conferences, many misgivings, Munck let himself...