Word: minne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...played one night, dressed angelwise in flowing georgette robes with snoods around their heads. The Twin City Opera Company gave Rigoletto. University students gave Madame Butterfly. John Erskine, Harold Bauer, Rudolph Ganz, Ernest Hutcheson and Henri Deering played the piano. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett and Soprano Florence Macbeth (from Mankato, Minn.) sang. Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge sponsored chamber music by the Gordon String Quartet. Twenty-five amateur choruses performed and an orchestra came from San Antonio, Tex., the players all in their early teens. Delegates who took a few hours off to buy presents to take home heard music...
Elected. Dr. Meta Glass, president of Sweetbriar College (Va). sister of Senator Carter Glass; to be president of the American Association of University Women, succeeding Dr. Mary Emma Woolley of Mt. Holyoke; at the biennial convention; in Minneapolis, Minn...
Three hundred members of the Otter Tail County Farmers' Holiday Association last week clumped into the county courthouse in Fergus Falls, Minn, to stop the foreclosure sale of a farm owned by one Abraham Matson. Leading the crowd marched a public-spirited Unitarian clergyman, Rev. John Flint, 50, outraged that the auction was to take place even though Farmer Matson was home sick. When County Coroner Curtis, substituting as auctioneer for recently deceased County Sheriff O. J. Tweten, put the customary question, "Is there any objection to conducting this sale?" 300 barnyard voices bellowed "Yes!" Coroner Curtis promptly granted...
FRANCIS GRILL St. Paul, Minn...
Last January British-born Rev. Thomas Frederick Rutledge Beale of St. Paul, Minn, went to court seeking U. S. citizenship. He had refused to promise to bear arms for the U. S.-prime requisite-because he believes that the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact has effectively outlawed war (TIME, Jan. 16). Last week Alien Beale's application was finally refused. He was doubtless aware that in Lima, Ohio last month, Russian-born Professor John Klassen of Bluffton College was granted citizenship upon his promise to serve the U. S. as a noncombatant; that the judge who granted...