Word: minority
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have shown in return the same interest in the Soviet Union. First arriving in Moscow with a large entourage and a railroad car of frozen delicacies, Ambassador Davies immediately won the Soviet Union's friendship by his elaborate entertainments for Soviet officials, by two long trips and many minor ones through the interior. Once he dined all Russia's important Commissars and their wives, ending the night's festivities with a showing of the cinema Naughty Marietta. Another time he wound up the season's social program with a dinner for three rarely dined Red Army...
...Gave the Federal Power Commission authority over interstate sales of natural gases. The Senate passed, with minor changes, a House bill giving FPC the right (not provided by the Public Utility Holding Co. Act) to declare unlawful any wholesale gas rates not "just & reasonable...
Twenty years ago, when gentlemen wore starched cuffs and ladies hid in corsets, musical shows were romantic, exotic and historical. The best of them, known as operettas, became minor classics and were repeatedly performed by stock light-opera companies throughout the U. S. During the peak years of U. S. operetta (1910-20), four composers dominated the field: Irish-born Victor Herbert (Naughty Marietta, etc.), Bohemian-born Charles Rudolph Friml (Katinka), Hungarian-born Sigmund Romberg (In Blossom Time), and Manhattan-born Jerome David Kern (Sally, Show Boat...
...location. Candidly dissatisfied with the appearance of the building, the judges picked Hornbostel and Bennett on the strength of their ground plan, contemplated many changes before the art centre is erected, but felt sure that architects who could successfully solve a major problem would have little trouble with minor ones...
...Homer Cummings more than a year ago (TIME, May 3, 1937). Alcoa fought it with an injunction by a Pittsburgh judge on the ground that the monopoly accusation had been settled by the 1912 consent decree. It took a U. S. Supreme Court decision and a set of minor court skirmishes to get Alcoa finally to court in Manhattan last week for the main show. Nonetheless, Alcoa asserts it has not delayed unnecessarily, that it is eager for the trial, all issues of which it says have been amply aired and settled by previous investigations and trials...