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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...direct control of all financial centres of government, including the U. S. Federal Reserve System. . . . He controls the revolutionary elements of the world, on one hand, and the ultra-conservative elements, on the other, so he has equal power in Communistic Russia and in capitalistic England, not to mention the theatre, motion picture and agriculture.' Jews claim my assertions are without proof. Merchant Straus wanted me to debate my accusations before a pseudo-court of ten persons. I was to choose any eight men I pleased, he the other two. I reject his suggestion...
...books and conversation impress sloop captains, who mention him to Governors, one of whom, the windbag of Pennsylvania, starts him off to England but fails to provide promised letters. The pushful youth suffers penury, for the sake of seeing Dr. Johnson's London, for 18 months. He returns to Philadelphia saddened by bad friends, broadened and a complete "extrovert," determined...
...musicians; as a conductor she instills into the orchestra under her baton something of that inexplicable power which makes for life in a piece of music without attendant loss in its character. Of the program, two numbers chosen from a large group of excellent compositions, seem to deserves especial mention the concrete of Grieg and the Marche Hongroise of Berlioz. Grieg's work, concrete for piano and orchestra of which only the first of the three movements will be played, contains passages of the greatest beauty, particularly in the duets between the piano and oboe and the contrasts between...
...onetime Farmer Willard rather than present day Railroader Willard who talked to a congress of farm boys and girls in Chicago last week. True enough, he did mention railroads and urged the youths to acquaint themselves with national affairs, but his smile was mellowest when he told of farmhood. Said...
...forgot to mention churning. I had to turn the churn and we had one cow that I despised; it seemed as if her cream never would turn into butter, and it also seemed as if it was always time to churn when the weather was just right for fishing or sliding down hill. Churning was an all-the-year-round...