Word: movement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Between the player and his instrument there are only ether-waves which are directed to the production of sound by the movement of the musician's hands in the air. Thereminvox, the ether-wave music instrument, and its influence upon musical development are of general interest internationally to the worlds of art and science...
...candidate for the office of governor in this state. She formerly has held a position in the State Labor Department from which she was discharged following her prominence in connection with the defense in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. Her husband, Powers' Hapgood '21, is also interested in the Socialist movement and together they have helped in the organization of miners in the Pennsylvania coal fields. Mrs. Hapgood returned to Massachusetts from Pennsylvania during the spring, and since that time has been actively engaged in conducting her campaign...
Additions to the Smith movement included...
...famed Philadelphians, presumably bigwigs who had dickered with him. Among these were: D. B. Cummins Catherwood, banker; Gardner Cassat, banker & broker; Roland R. Foulke, attorney & active churchman; Maxwell R. Marston, onetime (1923) national amateur golf champion; Major Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, author, lecturer, explorer, founder of the "Athletic Christianity" movement. Subpoenas were scattered far and wide...
...Gold Movement. Because five hundred million dollars of gold had been shipped away from the U. S. this year, the shipment of $2,500,000 from England to the U. S. last week, was memorable. It was the first time in more than a year that such movement had happened. Interest rate on loans is the cause. Money in New York cost 7% to 8%, in London 4½%; and money goes where it earns most...