Word: minority
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bach Cantata Club, directed by Mrs. Langdon Warner, and assisted by Mr. E. Power Biggs, organist, will give a concert at the Germanic Museum at 8:30 o'clock. The program will include "Concerts No. 2 in B flat," Handel; "1ch ruf" zu Herr Jesu Christ," Bach; G minor and G major fugues, Bach; and "Missa Brevis in D." Mozart...
...publicity value, an influential place in politics, or the position of college president. There are, to be sure, other avenues of entrance into the charmed circle, such as a career in education, sciences, literature, or journalism, but at a modern American commencement men from these fields are definitely playing "minor league" and as a rule are far from distinguished even at their own work...
Last week in Washington one Walter L. Williams, a minor clerk in the office of the U. S. Engineers, announced formation of the National Union for Collective Bargaining for Democratic Workers. Clerk Williams, who once heeled in South Philadelphia's "Little Italy," proposed to build up a regular heelers' union, with dues, locals, organizers and perhaps eventually affiliation with either the American Federation of Labor or the Committee for Industrial Organization. He was particularly incensed at the ward leaders, the only machine men who even know the precinct workers' names, and the only ones through whom they...
Main trend of the industry in 1937 and 1938 will be to spend money. By bringing in huge initial receipts, elaborate pictures like Maytime, Lost Horizon, A Star is Born have encouraged producers, never inclined to be pennywise, to spend stockholders' funds more freely than ever. Minor trends will be toward even more musicals, most of them frivolous rather than operatic; fewer child stars. Color will continue to progress slowly. In the next year, Hollywood will produce a total of 700 feature pictures...
...been already of old time, which was before us" (1 :10) to realize that much of the action of The Pretender parallels present European events. To give himself a freer hand, Author Feuchtwanger has based his story on a scanty and little-known episode in the history of Asia Minor. As usual he gives his far-off tale the vivid immediacy that has won him a place in the first rank of historical novelists...