Word: program
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program will be: Cimarosa, two choruses from "Il Matrimonio Segreto;" Bach, "Jesu, Who Didst Ever Guide Me;" Bach, "The Lamb That Was Slain For Us;" Paine, choruses from "The Birds" of Aristophanes; Dvorak, arrangements of two Czechoslovakian folksongs; and Sullivan, Choruses from "Iolanthe." The concert will be broadcast internationally by the non-commercial short wave station W1XAL, of Boston, on 6.04 and 11.73 megacycles...
...arms expenditures) was balanced by increasing direct and indirect taxes ($265,000,000 and slashing expenses, 40,000 surplus State Railway workers alone being fired. To leave the capital market free to industry, M. Reynaud promised that the Government would float no long-term loans until May. The recovery program pinched almost everyone, but the most anguished cries came from the labor unions, whose protestant general strike failed...
Last Sunday St. George's honored its most distinguished chorister with a special service of Negro spirituals. Headliner on the program was Harry Burleigh himself. Most of the spirituals were his own arrangements, including such famed items as Deep River, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, Go Down, Moses (in all, he has written some 150). St. George's was jammed. Outside, in tree-shaded Stuyvesant Square, big crowds listened in the warm spring sunshine as the voice of Harry Burleigh and St. George's choir rolled deeply from loudspeakers...
...President who for six years confidently has led the U. S. into one economic program after another, this was on its face an extraordinary admission. In this case, the admission was made to set the stage for another economic program. The monopoly hearing was about to enter a new chapter of its quizzing; with the aid of SEC it was about to make a diagnosis of depression calling for new remedies...
Thus he laid the groundwork for a new recovery program. A year ago, after the stockmarket cracked, the New Deal launched a $4,000,000,000 spending program calculated to raise consumers' buying power. It did, but a year later recession again rears its ugly head, and this time the Administration, in spite of what the President said May 22 about the milk and the coconut (see p. 15), is tempted to try something else, is toying with the idea of spending for capital goods...