Word: melius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Olaf's choristers always sing unaccompanied. Their sense of pitch is so accurate that their director, squat, white-haired Dr. Frederick Melius Christiansen, never even peeps a pitch pipe to give them the key. And their singing has the precision and shading of a crack symphony orchestra. Every year they pack up and pile into a chartered bus for at least one big tour. For St. Olaf, these tours earn substantial sums. The grey stone, $140,000 music building that is the pride of St. Olaf s campus was paid for mostly out of the choir's profits...
Suggestions that the inspiration for this move might have originated with New York Central were vastly annoying to U. S. Freight's President Frederic N. Melius, who rumbled: "Universal Carloading ... is simply a shipper of merchandise freight. It changes its routings on freight from one road to another to suit its own conditions and conveniences. No railroad has anything to do with determining such changes...
Technically Mr. Melius was correct but the circumstantial evidence was against him. The I. C. C. had the word of a Baltimore & Ohio man that a New York Central vice president had telephoned him to threaten that Universal would surely shift its patronage if B. & O. made an alliance with the Keeshin truck lines. The B. & O. continued to discuss that alliance, whereupon Universal started to route over Pennsylvania...
...Dining Hall. The patrons and patronesses will be headed by Professor and Mrs. Julian Coolidge and will include: Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Baker, Mr. P. P. Chase, Mr. and Mrs. E. Mims, Mr. and Mrs. James B. Munn, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Melius, Mr. and Mrs. E. Rosenstock-Hussy, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sharp, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Laurist...