Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prestes were both from Sao Paulo which was then sorely handicapped by the collapse of the world coffee market and unable to fight back. Since most of Brazil's 20 States, which figure in the world market only with such specialties as cocoa, Brazil nuts or carnauba wax (phonograph records), are merely so many jungle-choked, politically impotent drains on the Federal Treasury, this shift provoked no outcry. Rebellious Paulistas were brought to terms when the Federal Navy tied up Sao Paulo's harbor city of Santos, kept their grey-green mountains of coffee impounded until they cried...
Edward K. Rand '04, professor of Latin, in collaboration with Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '02, has made a collection of ten double-faced phonograph records, illustrating selections from the finest passages of Latin prose and poetry. Each record will be accompanied by a pamphlet giving the Latin text and idiomatic translation. The price will be $2.50 each. The passages are chosen from Plautus, Lucrotius, Catullus, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Livy, Ovid, Pliny, Juvonal, and Tacitus...
...would have been foolhardy to compete with established firms along the conventional recording lines. Therefore it was necessary to seek out new names and, especially, new musical material to create new interest in phonograph records." So said Managing Director Irving Mills of Master Records, Inc. (TIME, March 22) last week as he totted up the newest U. S. record company's first week's business. As a house policy, accent on what is known in show business as the "freak draw" is novel in the recording industry. As applied to Mills's Master (75?) and Variety...
Died. Emile Pathe, pioneer French cinemagnate and phonograph manufacturer; in Pau. Originally a tobacconist, he founded in 1896, with his brother Charles and two other Frenchmen, Pathe Freres (the crowing rooster), which produced early newsreels, Pearl White's The Perils of Pauline...
...bigwigs on March 3 and broadcast last week by electrical transcription to all Russia. "It is a rotten theory to say the Trotskyists do not have reserves in the Soviet Union among the remnants of the exploiting classes and among foreign traitors!" came Stalin's voice off the phonograph record. The U. S. translator of Trotsky's works, Max Eastman, was termed by Stalin "a notorious swindler and the leader of a horde of writing bandits who live only by slandering the working class and the Soviet Union...