Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whenever two or three men are banded together they can, if they will just drop a note to the White House, be virtually assured of a formal chit from the President of the U. S. expounding his sympathy with their aspirations, his admiration for men of their calling, perhaps his appreciation of the civic virtues of their creed, race, or particular forbears. Last week the members of the New York Board of Trade settled back in their chairs at luncheon to hear a chit written by the President specifically to be read to them. It had come in answer...
...March 1934 when President Roosevelt signed H. R. 8573 to free the Islands; or in March 1935 when he squiggled his approval on the work of the Philippine constitutional convention. But for all the merrymaking, an air of uneasiness and tension was marked by correspondents. "Doubts and forebodings" were noted among the attending masses by the New York Times's representative. The Herald Tribune's informant caught "a grim note of realism." It became known that 2,000 official admission tickets to the inaugural had mysteriously disappeared. The Philippine constabulary strongly suspected they had been filched by Sakdalistas...
When Arturo Toscanini rehearses the New York Philharmonic-Symphony he calls constantly into the darkened auditorium where a square-faced, square-shouldered German sits meticulously following each note of the score: "Lange, how does it sound...
...musical genius. The Purcell pieces played last week were lightly scored but they were so vital and direct, so tender, so craftily sure that the audience behaved as if it had just heard the percussive Bolero or driving Pacific 231. The final Fantasia, an ingenious weaving around a single note, had to be repeated. Then quiet Hans Lange was thanked time & again for reviving such long-neglected music...
Salamina is Rockwell Kent's 336-page record of two winters in Greenland, decorated with small illustrations and with 23 imposing studies, most of them of statuesque native women, who charmed his exile. Beginning on an ominous philosophical note describing the chaos of contemporary society, it quickly turns into a rambling discussion of Greenland natives, customs, scenery. Salamina was Rockwell Kent's housekeeper. In her late 20's, she was handsome, determined, the mother of three children. She pursued the artist relentlessly, carefully tucked him in at night, worried for fear he would freeze, scolded him about...