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...gloomy autocrat, Bodanzky drove every performance he conducted with a tight rein, lashed world-famed tenors and sopranos at rehearsals with a hot tongue ("Who told you you could sing?"). When he was feeling impatient he would sometimes drag a performance over the jumps as if he were rushing for a train. But when Artur Bodanzky felt just right, he could drive a pack of Valkyries through the Nibelung clouds like Wotan himself...
...statement says that Greene's rein protesting the Administration's re- fusal of permission to hold the meeting "is an invasion of the rights guaranteed to Harvard students by the time-honored tradition of the University...
...fleet early in the war lost control of the strategic Strait of Gibraltar and with it the mastery of the Spanish waters. Reasons: 1 ) when the war started sailors on Loyalist ships killed most of their experienced officers, leaving only inexperienced men in command; 2) the Franco fleet was rein forced by Italian submarines, destroyers and lesser craft. Both sides lost heavily during the war. There were about eight engagements during which the Franco fleet's most notable losses were the battle ship España and the cruiser Baleares, Besides losing several submarines, the Loyalist battleship Jaime...
...change deprived him of control of the General Headquarters Air Force. When that unit was established in 1935 as the Army's combat air force, it was placed outside the Air Corps proper. For a further check rein, its first commanding officer (Major General Frank Maxwell Andrews) was made directly responsible to the Chief of Staff. The GHQ Air Force now takes its place in the Air Corps and its new C. O. (Major General Delos CArleton Emmons) will be responsible to Henry Arnold alone...
...International Paper Co. lured brilliant, voluble Archibald Robertson Graustein out of a Boston law firm, made him president, gave him free rein. Mr. Graustein proceeded to take the bit in his teeth. International was huge when he got it. Archie Graustein made it colossal, chiefly by adding power properties. Before he got through, International Paper & Power Co. was an $800,000,000 empire stretching from Newfoundland to the Gulf of Mexico...