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...subject to abuse, not so much by the Government against a witness, but by a witness who can trick the Government into automatically giving him immunity from prosecution by asking him a question. In 1857 Congress passed a law, applying to all federal bodies and including congressional committees, which oper] ated on lines similar to the 1893 act. The | law was widely abused. In a debate on ; revising the act, Senator Lyman Trumbull j of Illinois said: "Here is a man who stole | $2,000,000 in bonds, if you please, out of i the Interior Department. What does...
...Dixie beat could take a fling at Paris with a reasonable chance of success. Lately, U.S. "progressive" jazzmen on tour have been meeting with mixed reactions from the uninhibited French, who boo at the drop of a diminished seventh, read newspapers while the music plays, shout "à l'operé!" or "à dormir!" when the music is too polite for their tastes. Worst of all for the progressive musicians, French Dixieland fans make a practice of invading modernist concerts just to snort and bellow...
...almost more than an ambitious impresario could resist, but Rudolf Bing, Austrian-born boss of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, loyally resisted. In Salzburg, Austria, he confirmed reports that he had been asked to take over Berlin's Staedtische Oper. "The offer was very tempting," he said, "because the Berlin Opera has a subsidy of more than $1,000,000 yearly, which makes the work there much easier than under the sad situation at the Metropolitan, where, from year to year, we must live from donations...
...Trial will have another day in the critics' court: performances are scheduled for Berlin's Staedtische Oper and Manhattan's City Center this fall...
...Jewish resistance groups which continue to oper ate in Palestine...