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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bach: Nine Chorale Preludes (Carl Weinrich. organist: Musicraft: 10 sides). On the 18th-Century-facsimile organ at Princeton's Westminster Choir School, Organist Weinrich revives Bach's Lutheran embroidery in all its original sparkle, clarity and color. One of the month's most notable...
Ever in the rip tide of pressure groups, Washington during the past month was the scene of a unique Battle of the Pressagents. Sitting in judgment was an emergency Fact-Finding Board of three appointed by Franklin Roosevelt to decide whether railroad managements were justified in imposing a general 15% wage cut (TIME, April...
...utility industry it has lately become apparent that the New Deal handwriting is on the wall. Last month legalistic skirmishings ended when Chairman C. E. Groesbeck of Electric Bond & Share agreed to file integration plans in keeping with the holding company ''death sentence'' (TIME, Oct. 24). Last week the industry poked a hole in the dam that has held back some $3,000,000,000 worth of replacements and expansions in the last two years. On the face-saving excuse that the utilities must be geared for national defense, 16 potent utility financiers on the National...
...banking in 1907 after making a small fortune in wood, paper and power mills. Subsequent huge profits in shipping, agriculture, oil, mining, hotels and cement won him great repute as a daring plunger. But some stockholders charged that his plunges were more profitable to Herbert than to them. (Last month the Maritime Commission listed him among those who milked the Dollar Line almost to extinction...
...Jesse kept on writing. Amazingly prolific, ingenuous, enthusiastic, he broke on the U. S. literary scene as an authentic voice from the hills, turned out a book of 703 sonnets in eleven months, wrote a book of extraordinary stories about the hill people, an autobiography. He taught school in Greenup (pop. 1,125), became county school superintendent at $100 a month, went to Europe last year on a Guggenheim Fellowship, returned to teach school, sell stories to Collier's, Esquire, and write editorials for a Greenup County paper...