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...Monday's violence was sporadic, minor???a few bricks heaved, a few trucks upset, some creosote bombs tossed through windows in Oakland. By nightfall Harry Bridges was easing his grip. On order of the Public Utilities Commission municipal streetcars began running again, with the strike committee's full assent. Picket lines made no move to stop police-guarded food trucks coming in from nearby farms. The strike committee announced full resumption of bakery, milk and ice deliveries. Citizens heard that the committee was planning to let all restaurants open next morning. But all liquor sales were banned "during the emergency...
Napoleonic noise was filling the world when Beethoven first dreamed in D Minor???a combination of orchestra and voice that should recapitulate the struggle and ultimate victory of humanity. It was several years later that Beethoven wrote to London asking what the Philharmonic Society would be likely to pay for a manuscript symphony. The offer was £50. In 1824 the manuscript was delivered?...
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