Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mynheer Mengelberg and Signor Toscanini share the Philharmonic season, with Guest Conductors Sir Thomas Beecham and Bernadino Molinari (TIME. Sept. 19), and Ernest Schelling, leader of the Children's Concerts...
...Samuel Gompers would have thought of the Executive Council's decision to "rely on facts rather than force" was something that gave oldtime militants in the A. F. of L. much food for reflection. Nor was this food seasoned by anything peppery in the keynote remarks of the leader upon whom the Gompers mantle fell three years ago. He, President William Green, euphemizes strikes as "our economic powers." He is a student of such economic abstractions as "collective bargaining," such legalistic abstractions as "jurisdictional disputes." He does not place the unions above the law. He argues almost academically...
...memories of a deceased brutal father; the other warmed by the hot blood of his inheritance. The latter increases the world's population by one surreptitiously but serenely. The former is unnaturally intent on nothing but good works. Both, finally, are attracted by an aggressive labor leader. Miss Ferguson is lovely but not always lucid as the looser sister. The best performance of the play is Nance O'Neil's. She portrays the mother, bloody but unbowed after many years of connubial fireworks with the barbaric father...
Holy Cross, though outnumbered, possessed an individual star whose equal has perhaps never been seen on the historic Soldiers Field turf. Harvard had its pistol, but the Crusader leader had the Harvard stands on its feet yelling for more of his gravitational magic. The fight might well have been declared a draw by music critics, Harvard's volume equalling the single-handed figuratively, of course--performance of the Crusader's drum major...
...work of Dr. Peabody knew no local bounds. He was a leader of his profession, known all over the country while still a comparatively young man. In his fellow physicians he commanded respect and affection; in his patients the utmost confidence; and in students of medicine and young doctors, ardent devotion often close to hero-worship. He filled a high place in the medical world, not only because of his professional skill, but because of the unselfish spirit which lent the crowning light to a naturally charming personality. In the long illness which preceded his death the strength and beauty...