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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...songs are cut out." Harassed Dell officials finally coddled Iturbi into going on with the program, putting the rest of the "Iloveyou" songs off to the end. Mollified, the muscular maestro-who used to be an amateur boxer and was interviewed as such last week by Sports Writer Cy Peterman of the Philadelphia Bulletin-seated himself at the piano, gave an account of the Rhapsody in Blue of the late George Gershwin,* which for technical brilliance and jazz feeling topped anything Gershwin or Roy Bargy ever did with the work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Turbulent Iturbi | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

Louisiana has had almost no hand in controlling the distribution of Federal relief funds within the State. Early this month Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins quietly destroyed the State's last hold on Federal relief funds by appointing Frank Peterman, a bitter anti-Longster, to administer Louisiana relief. Last week Senator Long piped his State legislators to Baton Rouge, commanded them to rubber-stamp bills empowering his State agencies to seize and administer all Federal relief and PWA monies sent into the State, clap Frank Peterman into jail if he did not knuckle under. "This," commented an anti-Long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Rebuke & Repartee | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

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