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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reminded of a few items of cost. You say in France a pound-loaf of bread sold for 4½?. We say in America in some places a pound-loaf sold for 4? (see paragraph 2)-made in the cleanest bakeries and the highest wage scale in the world. (Note:-Shoes from Czechoslovakia, light globes from Japan, shirts from England, all sell below American prices. Are we seeking to hold the American Standard-or drop to the foreign level...
Striking a bold, fresh note in Conference plans, the French Premier proposed world co-operation in "international public works," gave as examples "the exploiting of South America's wealth, the establishing of trans-African railways and vast public works in Central Europe and the Near East. These projects . . . should be simultaneously begun by all the great nations...
...Bayreuth seemed to him almost like betraying Wagner, that in his distress over the whole situation he was past feeling such thrusts as the one last week published in the Berlin Vossische Zeitung: "The great musician, with incorruptible ears ever mistrustfully and pedantically intent on the last sixteenth note, has heard out of the mighty orchestra that is Germany only the discordant tone." The National Socialist Militant League for German Culture said: "As Germans we are convinced that artistically adequate interpreters of the works of Wagner will be found." Frau Wagner hastily announced that Composer Richard Strauss will conduct...
...with the slightly superior Harvard mounts, will make things tough for the Princeton riders. Princeton has more power than finesse; while Harvard depends on smoothness, a factor which stood her in such good stead during the arduous fight last winter for the Massachusetts Indoor Crown. It is interesting to note that this quality of the team stands in direct contrast to the characteristic power which is the main hope for a Crimson crew victory in the Thames classic this evening...
Pianist Percy Grainger has likened the texture of Ellington's music to that of British Composer Frederick Delius. Scholarly musicians are looking forward to a Duke Ellington review which is scheduled for New York next season. Such lofty recognition has injected no jarring, self-conscious note into Ellington's performances. Ellington and his players cling to the Negro dialect. Hot obligates are still "riffs" to them. Dapper Sonny Greer, probably the world's greatest drummer, still shouts "Send me, man!" when he is about to launch a percussive volley. Ellington's own soft-spoken orders...