Word: performances
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dictator Stalin gets things done, occasionally spurring his subordinates to perform the flatly impossible, appeared last week when Commissar for Transport Lazar Kaganovich announced 13,423,000 freight car loadings for the first seven months of 1935, whereas experts had considered it impossible for him to fulfill the goal of 13,356,000 loadings set by Comrade Stalin...
...shall be for the good of the sick to the utmost of your power, you holding yourselves far aloof from wrong, from corruption, from the tempting of others to vice; That you will exercise your art solely for the cure of your patients, and will give no drug, perform no operation for a criminal purpose, even if solicited; far less suggest it: That whatsoever you shall see or hear of the lives of men which is not fitting to be spoken, you will keep inviolably sacred...
With these and more unprintable comments, George Herman Ruth last week resigned from the Boston Braves with whom he signed a contract last February to perform as baseball player, assistant manager and vice president. His reasons: personal differences with the Braves' president, Judge Emil Fuchs, climaxed by Judge Fuchs's refusal to allow him to attend a party on board the S.S. Normandie (see p. 20) which Babe Ruth thought would be "a great thing for baseball." Judge Fuchs's reply: an unconditional release for Ruth, an offer to sell the team which he, says has cost...
...International Music Festival in a new amphitheatre to be built on the river front near the Belle Isle Bridge. When the Festival began last week more than 10,000 amateurs were ready to take part in the ten-day session. Five thousand freshly-scrubbed schoolchildren were first to perform. And eager to follow were the singers from Ferndale, the many local Ukrainians, Scots, Scandinavians, Slavs. Choir singers were Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists. More than forty organizations and 17 nationalities were to be richly represented. But Detroiters were proudest of the workmen who stood for their city...
...outmoded in its facilities and inadequate to meet exigencies. If the need for new equipment is made known it will undoubtedly be forthcoming. But the question of meeting the extraordinary demands of contagious diseases and serious illness is another matter. The functions that a college infirmary should perform are still open to determination...