Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Glee Club is not an organization whose activities are surrounded by a fanfare of publicity; and perhaps because of this, as well as a decreasing interest in choral music generally, its most recent concerts have not received the popular attention which they deserve. Under the inspiring leadership of first Dr. Davison and now Mr. Woodworth, a progressive and vigorous policy has boon pursued which is reflected in the highly interesting program which the Glee Club is presenting with the Radcliffe Choral Society next Tuesday evening at Sanders Theatre...
...mean to suggest that Dr. Noyes has merely made the best of a bad subject, for that would be untrue. He throws no end of light upon the manners and customs of by-gone ages when the stage was an important avenue of culture, with no competitors for popular esteem such as the opera or the movies. "Theatrical reminiscence", according to Max Beerbolun, "is the most awful weapon in the armory of old age", but when a young scholar wields it one can endure...
...court violinist to Spain's Alfonso XIII and promoter of Ed Wynn's defunct Amalgamated Broadcasting Co. According to Lawyer Thompson, President Insull "hasn't got a dollar in the company; he didn't have a dollar to put in." One sure sign of broadening popular interest in stockmarket speculation is booming activity in so-called "penny stocks," which are shares selling below $1. Most active issue on the New York Curb Exchange last week was U. S. Electric Power warrants, entitling the holder to buy one share of the company's common...
Since President Roosevelt signed the corporate reorganization amendment to the Bankruptcy Act in 1934, Section 77-B has become a highly popular resort for embarrassed U. S. corporations. So many companies have crowded into court that bankruptcy now has its own trade publication, Corporate Reorganizations...
POWER - Edwin A. Falk - Longmans, Green ($4). When Wallace Irwin wrote his popular Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy in 1907 he called his hero Hashimura Togo-a name obliquely familiar to most U. S. newspaper readers. But when Count Togo Heihachiro, onetime Admiral of the Imperial Fleet, died in 1934, only Japanese schoolboys still remembered the details of his famed victories. Last week Biographer Falk, himself a onetime sea dog, paid Admiral Togo's career the meticulous sympathy of one naval officer for another. Author Falk never attempted to penetrate through the uniform, but his comprehensive account of modern...