Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany this summer we discovered a new kind of phonograph record called "Spiel mil." These records of the best chamber music are prepared by good musicians with one part missing on the phonograph. The sheet music for the missing part is supplied with the record. The student by this method can play the record, hear first the sounding of a, then comes the beating of time for one measure, and, after a measure of silence, the music begins, making it possible for the student to join in with his own instrument...
...informed by a Jewish acquaintance in Berlin that the records have been prepared by a group of Jewish musicians who have turned to this method of supporting themselves after having lost their orchestra position because of their race. The artist responsible is Emil Herrmann, a violinist, and the records are prepared by the well-known radio record company, "Telefunken...
...Democratic nomination in Arkansas is under normal circumstances tantamount to election. All Arkansas' Governor Carl Edward Bailey needed to do was to call a primary election which he could almost certainly have won. Instead, last August he chose what then appeared to be the even less risky method of having himself nominated by the State Democratic Committee on the ground that 120 days was not enough time to hold a primary and an election. Last summer, anti-Bailey Democrats, including the late Joe Robinson's faction of the party, held a convention of their own, nominated for Senator...
...This entails above all, as Mr. Landon succinctly pointed out, plugging up potential loopholes by lending an ear to the opponents of social legislation and re-drafting the parts of the laws which can be legitimately criticized before these weaknesses can do any harm in actual practice. The experimental method is all right in its place, but it seems obvious that lawmaking is not the place; "haste makes waste" concisely describes the inefficiency of the New Deal's hit-or-miss legislative philosophy...
...consented to answer a few more questions. His real name is Edward Kennedy Ellington, and he hails from Washington, D. C. His method of composition is simple: he gets in a mood and just writes, or he comes upon a harmony construction that he likes. He never forces anything in his writing...