Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little wonder was it when Franklin Roosevelt came to Washington with his New Deal that Pierce Butler was regarded as head hatchet-man for the conservatives. The score-sheet bore out this feeling: On the 14 major New Deal Cases, Pierce Butler voted 13 times against, once...
...Princeton finger men accounting the game reported that he was the hardest-fighting man in the Harvard line. His name is Ernie Sergeant, and he will sit in the stands tomorrow and never wear a major H, because a head injury has ended football...
...major portion of the drill again consisted of running off plays on the bags--to the tune of one hour. The last 15 minutes were under the lights. The passing yesterday was only mediocre, and the practice as a whole was not as satisfactory as Monday...
...Longy School concert tonight will consist of music arranged for two pianos. The program includes the Piston Concertino for piano and orchestra, the Piano Concerto in A major and an Andante and Fugue by Mozart, and Ravel's La Valse. The practice of arranging orchestral scores for piano is one which can be very reasonably objected to on purely aesthetic grounds, for the music is certainly distorted in the process. The justification for such arrangements is a practical one. They are extremely convenient both for the student who can play them without orchestra and for the concert-goer who wishes...
...Lindsay & Russel Grouse; produced by Oscar Serlin). No easy job was it to transfer to the stage the late Clarence Day's saga of his own family during Manhattan's horsecar era. Day's own chronicle has no plot, no love interest, no mighty triumphs, no major catastrophes-only crusty, rambunctious Father, who lost almost every set-to; helpless, fluttering Mother, who won; and four redheaded boys. But Playwrights Lindsay & Grouse have turned the whole thing into a spirited, likable stage comedy. They have taken the sting out of Father...