Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas City case. NLRB, which had issued rulings against Republic Steel Corp. and Ford Motor Co. without giving the companies interim information on its proceedings, hastily asked the Federal courts to withdraw the suits over its rulings until it perfected its procedure. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia refused to withdraw the Republic order. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Covington, Ky. likewise refused to withdraw the Ford order...
Neither are we "hungrily on the hunt" for brass and wood wind players. It is not true that we recently sought to entice three men away from the Philadelphia Orchestra. The three artists mentioned in your article voluntarily applied to us for employment. Based upon their assurance that they were free to negotiate, contracts were signed...
TIME did not say that NBC 'enticed" Hornist Berv, Contrabassist Torello and Trombonist Gusikoff, merely stated that Philadelphia Orchestra's Manager Alfred Reginald Allen had "caught [them] ... in the act of reaching for NBC contracts...
Died. Edward Townsend Stotesbury, 89, head of the Philadelphia firm of Drexel & Co. and partner of J. P. Morgan & Co.; of a heart attack; in Whitemarsh Hall, Chestnut Hill, Pa. Financier Stotesbury, after serving as a drummer boy in the Civil War, went to work for the elder Drexel at a salary of $16.60 a month. Lowest estimate of his fortune at death...
Even today few piano accordion squeezers rank as virtuosos. But this week, after an accordion recital in Philadelphia's staid Academy of Music, Philadelphia critics admitted that their townsman, dark, 30-year-old Andy Arcari, could claim the title. Accordionist Arcari, who had given previous recitals in Pittsburgh and Toledo, played a program ranging from Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue to Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen. Said Critic Henry Pleasants: "Here was a brilliance in scale and arpeggio passages that many a violinist or pianist could envy." Virtuoso Arcari, who makes most of his living teaching and playing...