Word: organizers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Final authority in all matters has been turned over by the former student editors to a Graduate Board. This has been done to maintain the continuity of the paper and to keep it from becoming a simple organ of the services or the University...
Junior Achievement's somewhat pompous title matches the humorless tone of its national house organ, Achievement (mostly written by J.A.'s elder statesmen), which sags from too much uplift about working hard to succeed. But J.A.'s kids have always been anything but ponderous. Founded 24 years ago by Horace Augustus Moses (head of Strathmore Paper Co.) to teach business methods to adolescents before they went to work, J.A. has done just that for more than 75,000 youngsters. The Moses formula still prevails: up to 15 boys, girls or both, backed by their families or local...
...George Gershwin has fared none too well. What the "Rhapsody in Blue" was written for originally seems at the moment to be obscured by its numerous and greatly varied instrumentations, but I for one have heard it for piano, for two pianos, for piano and orchestra, for piano and organ, for organ and orchestra, for four pianos, for accordion, and in other popularized versions. And it was only this season that "Porgy and Bess," in a somewhat stilted and unGershwinian manner (a la Bennett), entered Carnegie Hall...
...professor of Marxist political science; Pravda has the austerity of Truth and it is a rare Russian who sets himself up as a better judge of that absolute. It has a daily press run of at least 2,000,000 copies, considerably more than that of Izvestia ("News"), the organ of the Praesidium of the Supreme Council; four times that of Red Star, the Army newspaper...
Meantime Heinrich Himmler's organ, Das Schwarze Korps, editorialized: "We have need of children [to] compensate for war losses [and to] permit us to send Germans into all countries whose occupation is necessary. ... A decline in births for some years would be a national catastrophe...