Word: programs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed the War Department appropriation bill of $357,000,000, providing for a standing army of 118,750 men, increasing the daily per capita food ration from 35c to 40c (TIME, Jan. 24), allowing $20,000,000 to continue the five-year program of the Air Corps. (Bill went to the Senate...
...Slips. Finance Minister Alberto J. Pani, said to be the only member of the Calles Cabinet whose word is trusted by U. S. financiers, had his resignation accepted last week. For months he has been urging the inexpediency of the Cabinet's confiscatory oil and land program and its suppressive religious policy. A state financier of high ability, Big Pin Pani is also a shrewd political chameleon. He has served under more Presidents than any other Mexican adjusting, himself to the political hue of each, but retaining his reputation as an able administrator. Therefore no surprise was felt last...
Therefore Manhattanites were prepared for almost anything when the Cleveland Orchestra, still in its precocious youth, sat down on the stage of Carnegie Hall last week, for its eighth annual Manhattan concert, and burst, with groaning wood and trumpeting brass, into the first program ever offered by a U. S. symphony of first rank on which appeared three native compositions...
...complete the program: H. Emerson Whithorne's "Aeroplane," a tonal attempt at flight which taxied furiously without quite getting off the ground; III. Frederich Shepherd Converse's "Elegia Poem," from the melody of an old Negro slave song; finally two foreign compositions as a sop: the Mozart G Minor and Stravinsky's Fire Bird...
Turn about is fair play. Manhattan newspapers last week invited professional musicians to write criticisms of a Bach, Mozart and Brahms program, rendered on three pianos and with the assistance of a student stringed orchestra, by a group of amateurs factiously styled the Kadenza Kids. The Kadenza Kids were Music Critic Olin Downes of the New York Times, Novelist-Critic John Erskine (Private Life of Helen of Troy, Galahad) and his daughter Rhoda, and Ernest Urchs, a partner of the Steinway Co. Their object: to raise money for the MacDowell Colony* at Peterborough...