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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After another prayer Michigan's Representative Louis C. Rabaut, to whose small, sweet tenor voice Joe Byrns had liked to listen, sang Absent and Thy Will Be Done. Leaning heavily on the rostrum, Speaker Bankhead declared in his soft Alabama drawl: "There were so tempered in the heart and soul of Joe Byrns elements of tolerance, patience and sympathy that he had drawn to him the ungrudging regard and affection of all men who came within the radius of his genial influence." Stumbling through his speech, Minority Leader Snell observed: "No worthier nor more dauntless friend nor foe than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Reaper's Return | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...Group tenet is to spread the message of "God-control" as widely as possible, the publicity emphasized the adroit staging of the Assembly, the newsworthiness of the names identified with it, the singular nature of the testimony by which Oxford Group ideas were proffered to those who cared to listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Groupers in Stockbridge | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

With high hopes one evening last week hundreds of earnest music-lovers went to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, prepared to listen in all respect to a long-neglected masterpiece. Gluck's Orjeo et Eurydice, missing from the Metropolitan repertoire since 1914, had been promised as one of the highlights of the Popular Spring Season (TIME, May 25). The production was to be in a way experimental, with the singers placed in the orchestra pit while dancers from the American Ballet mimed their roles on the stage. Even among purists such a prospect aroused little concern. A similar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Travesty on Gluck | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

This system of sections and conference groups would make instruction easier for the section man, and would create interest among those students who are now forced to listen to explanations of material that they have mastered. Also the lower grade man could be given fuller instruction in the basic material which he was not grasped, not being exposed to the extraneous discussion of men of conference rank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excerpts From Text of 1939 Committee Report; Deal With Curriculum Reforms | 5/22/1936 | See Source »

...rigid bodies were passed out from hand to hand over the heads of the crowd. Finally, chin outthrust, Benito Mussolini rested both hands on the balustrade and bellowed: "Officers, non-commissioned officers, privates, Black Shirts of the Fascist revolution, Italian men and women at home and throughout the world-LISTEN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Re ed Imperatore | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

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