Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mile, Boulanger will also give a course at Wellesley, but it has not yet been determined whether Harvard students will be admitted there as well. She will set another precedent this winter when she will be the first woman to conduct a major symphony orchestra in America...
...major fight start, we're sure to go in. Our best chance is in the policy toward which our government is moving, to apply our pressures wherever possible upon the side where, they will tend to repress aggressive action, realizing that to be effective in this desperate game means being not afraid to call a bluff when it is made. The best way to stay out of war is not being afraid to go into it. --The Yale News...
...concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Daniole Amfi-theatrof, will be given in Sanders Theater tonight at 8 o'clock. The program will include: Rossini, Overture to "Semiramide"; Boccherini, Suite for Strings; Dukas, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"; Beethoven, Symphony No. 7 in A major...
...Five months ago American Water Works became one of the first of some 90 holding companies which are now registered with SEC to file a voluntary plan for reorganization. And last week SEC, pleased to find a public utility that wanted to cooperate, gave its approval in all major respects...
...group engaged in prosecuting concessionaires who stayed open Sundays at Philadelphia's Sesquicentennial Exposition. Getting into politics in the city comptroller's office, Sam Wilson soon rocketed to fame by attacking "the utility-banking-political combine." In 1935 he was elected mayor on a platform whose three major planks were 5? carfare, tax reduction and 50? gas, Philadelphia carfare is still 7?, but Mayor Wilson did cut taxes and last year, at a banquet celebrating the gasworks centennial, he fired the opening gun of a drive...