Word: madison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week from Madison, Wis. the shadow of Ohio's late Senator John Sherman spread darkly across 18 major U. S. oil companies, five of their subsidiaries, 58 oilmen and three oil trade journals. Under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act they were all criminally indicted by a Federal grand jury for having "combined and conspired, beginning in February 1935, and continuing to date, to raise and fix prices of gasoline sold in interstate commerce, mainly in ten States of the Middle West...
...than civil prosecution under the Sherman Act. Late last spring Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings announced that complaints of oil price-fixing had been received, that at President Roosevelt's express request the Department of Justice would investigate. Three months ago a Federal grand jury began sitting in Madison, has since examined more than 100 witnesses...
Nervously clutching a lanyard, a plump, bald little man stood in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden one night last week, out of sight of the audience but within range of a large orchestra whose members were blowing and fiddling for dear life. Suddenly the orchestra leader raised his hand with a jerk. The bald man shut his eyes, pulled the lanyard. Boom went a 17-in. cannon. Boom, Boom, Boom it went again, each time almost knocking the little cannoneer off his feet. Sixteen rifles in the hands of 16 U. S. Coast Guardsmen and infantry fired a volley...
...depicting Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, was augmented with artillery sounds at its first performance there in 1882. The fact that this old warhorse received its first NewYork rendition with similar effects last week was due to the Works Progress Administration and Colonel John Reed Kilpatrick, president of Madison Square Garden. The WPA's Federal Music Project, which has some 16,000 musicians on its rolls, wished to weld 210 members of three New York City WPA orchestras and a WPA symphonic band of 75 into a single unit for one big concert. Colonel Kilpatrick, who last spring...
...concert a disappointment to the man who did much of the six weeks' work of organizing it, who whipped the 285 players together after they had been rehearsed in sections. Conductor Erno ("Ernie") Rapée not only led the biggest symphonic orchestra ever assembled in Madison Square Garden through the 1812 and a Strauss waltz, but also performed the feat of arranging for it a trio Tchaikovsky originally wrote for piano, violin and cello...