Word: publicational
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week's program-Beethoven, Brahms, Ravel, Wagner-was the first of some 80 for grownups. The children's series will be expanded this year, will be given in coöperation with a four-year course in appreciation in Chicago public high schools. In Cleveland, Nikolai Sokolov's orchestra began its twelfth season, presumably the last before it moves into the new hall provided by the $6,000,000 endowment fund raised last spring (TIME, May 6). Feature of the opening concert was the première of Werner Janssen's New Year...
With usual fanfare, the 28th annual Carnegie Institute International Exhibition of Paintings opened last week in Pittsburgh. On Founder's Day the afternoon before the doors were opened to the public, prize winners were announced. By that time the jury had dispersed. Painters and critics, never much pleased at Carnegie juries' selections, began to snarl, declaring that the canvases were picked by admen and suitable only for reproduction in Sunday supplements. This year no great name was accorded a prize. The first award was won by Felice Carena of Italy, whose picture The Studio was largest...
...were the avowals of Harry A. Austin, secretary-treasurer of the U. S. Beet Sugar Association, of his efforts to obtain a higher tariff on sugar as a protection to the domestic industry. He told investigators that his headquarters had spent $500,000 in seven years to "educate" the public. He even admitted that most of his press releases were "bunk." For his services he receives $8,000 per year. He admitted that he had misrepresented William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, as favoring a higher sugar duty, but said it was an "accidental mistake." Denying that...
...might a shrewd crook use a dignified manner, well-cut clothes, a gold-headed cane, proper language and a pretended association with a great public character to swindle a famed jeweler? One way might be to take the following steps...
...From a public telephone several hours later call the great man's home, speak for the jewelry firm, explain that the rings were delivered by mistake and that a salesman (name given) would call to whom, upon identification, the rings should be returned...