Word: save
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crack and crunch of wood & steel, which went to make up Russia's railroad disasters of the last month. He issued a decree: "Transport must improve. Some workers are so inefficient as almost to be wreckers. Unless their work improves, allegiance to the Communist Party will not save them." High spots in a month's wrecking which the Government dribbled out to the Press days late...
...tribute, small or great. . . ." Toscanini's birthday presents amounted to some $50,000, made over $400,000 that the Philharmonic has collected since Harry Harkness Flagler, president of the Society, announced that the Orchestra was in peril of its life (TIME, Feb. 5). The S O S (Save Our Symphony) Campaign was launched in Mr. Flagler's Park Avenue home. There he informed 70 likely givers that $500,000 would have to be raised to assure the Orchestra's existence for the next three seasons. Mr. Flagler's guests knew the Philharmonic's proud reputation...
...missed a season since 1842 when it started as a cooperative organization giving concerts in the Apollo Rooms on Lower Broadway. The musicians stood up to play then. Several chosen for their "appearance and address" acted as ushers, wore white gloves until the Society discovered it could save $4.75 if they went barehanded. Never has a Philharmonic concert been canceled. Only two have been postponed, one when Conductor Anton Seidl died suddenly, the other when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Radio has made the Philharmonic the world's most widely heard orchestra. Columbia Broadcasting System figured that...
...with a certain condescension. Vice President Garner is "that imaginary point in the center of the Democratic Party. . . . He is against Big Business, but only because it interferes with small business, and if the New Deal should ever fall into his hands, God help the New Deal and Heaven save the country." Secretary of State Hull is "our grey-haired Prince of Wales." Secretary of the Navy Swanson's presence in the Cabinet "is, in part, the South's vengeance" for the loss of the Civil...
...immediately starts to sow a large crop of wild oats with the expert help of Lupe Velez. But his old mother back on the farm hears about it, and, being well aware of the traps that these fast city girls may set for her boy, comes posthaste to save him from this awful fate. Yanked rather precipitately from the arms of Miss Velez and ignominiously knocked out in his next fight, our hero decides to return to the farm and marry Mary Carlisle and six gingham dresses...