Word: major
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lead the A. A. P. A.'s countercampaign against what has been called the "supergovernment" of the Anti-Saloon League, the A. A. P. A. installed an executive in a newly created position of president. The new man is Major Henry Hastings Curran, able lawyer, onetime (1920-21) Borough President of Manhattan, onetime (1923-26) U. S. Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island, N. Y. Major Curran will be the lieutenant of Captain William H. Stayton, who remains Chairman of the A. A. P. A. Board of Directors...
Leaders & Spokesmen: 1) For Capital, Sir Alfred Moritz Mond, towering manufacturer of industrial chemicals, father of the present Conference, into which he has mustered the active heads of 159 major British corporations; 2) For Labor, Mr. Ben Turner, jovial, moderate President of the British Trades Union Congress, a body so potent that it wrought the great British General Strike (TIME, May 10 to 24, 1926), estimated to have cost the Empire not less than...
...attained. Sir Thomas the showman had become Sir Thomas the poet. True, he lapsed a little in the Tschaikowsky B Flat Minor Concerto, but then the Concerto with all its noisy trappings was for Pianist Vladimir Horowitz*, and served him accordingly. Sir Thomas came back with Mozart's C Major Symphony, Berlioz' Chasse Royale et I'Orage, Wagner's Meistersinger overture. The audience stayed long after he was through, cheered him, regretted unanimously that he was to conduct only four concerts...
Robust burlesque maidens and gentlemen in baggy trousers have been marching across U. S. stages these many years; marching, singing, telling jokes. Among them have been such major artists as Jim Barton, Clark and McCullough, Fanny Brice, the late Bert Williams, Belle Baker, Weber and Fields, David Warfield, Grace La Rue. Often the jokes have been off color; often the robust maidens have been elaborately exposed, so often that burlesque is often considered a rowdy industry. Sam A. Scribner, onetime circus man, fighting for years against unsavory shows, brought his Columbia wheel to a point of considerable respectability. In spite...
...Owen Wister's story about the card sharping son of a British lord; Joseph Hergesheimer's Triall by Armes, winding the suave coils of its prose around the mind of a millionaire's daughter who has married a multimillionaire's somewhat fragile son; Good Morning, Major, in which J. P. Marquand accentuates a melodramatic moment in the old army game; Meridel Le Sueur's Persephone; Sherwood Anderson's Another Wife; these stories would finish ahead of the field in any literary sweepstakes. All the other stories are good ones...