Word: obtaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still president. The Guild, whose aim was frankly to protect the prestige rather than the purses of its members, signed up 400 of the elite of U. S. opera singers and concert artists, everyone from Richard Bonelli (made second vice president) to Paul Whiteman. But the Guild could not obtain a union charter, for it trespassed on the field of the Grand Opera Artists' Association of America, which had been chartered by the A. F. of L. a year before...
...estate near Stockbridge, three concerts by the Boston Symphony under Dr. Kaussevitzky netted $1,800, caused organizers of the Festival to begin to talk of "an American Salzburg" and impelled the stately Boston maestro to urge that the number of summer concerts be increased and the Festival obtain a permanent home. Result was that the present owners of Tanglewood, Mrs. Gorham Brooks and Miss Mary Aspinwall Tappan of Brookline, turned their estate over to the Festival committee, which raised $16,000 in pledges for an orchestra pavilion to be designed by famed Finnish-born Architect Eliel Saarinen...
...Victor Hammer, one with a medical degree, both friends of Soviet Russia. Visiting Moscow in 1921 to do a few months' medical relief work in the Ural farming area, Armand Hammer ended up by staying nine years and with Brother Victor became one of the first foreigners to obtain commercial concessions in Russia, sold Ford tractors, Moline plows, later bought Russian beer barrel staves for his U. S. factories. Realizing that the Soviet bureaucracy was becoming swamped in a morass of official papers, they obtained a pencil-making concession...
...organization and scrupulous division of labor are basic features of every truly American institution. Hotels, hospitals, public offices, warehouses-all work toward the same end: avoiding as much as possible the weakening and separation of resources and means. All function in the same way. The same working methods obtain at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research as at the Baldwin Locomotive Works at Philadelphia, the Chicago stockyards, and St. Mary's Hospital at Rochester...
...means of such admirable organization and division of labor, preordained, thorough and carried to incredible lengths, the Mayos got results that no single independent surgeon had ever been able to obtain. All this is very good. But when one thinks that the doctors, all their life, do only one thing, more or less circumscribed -the anesthetizers, for example, who only administer ether, and so on-one thinks again (such is the insidious association of ideas) of the Armour & Company butchers in Chicago, of those expert amputators of horns, hoofs, and ears, good fellows all, but who, outside of their little...