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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revised in the past year. But the machinery through which room permissions are secured still remains cumbersome and needlessly involved, a sort of haunting forget-me-not inherited from an age and a people who spiced their moral restrictions with a good New England imagination. In all the Houses, save Adams and Dunster, for instance, it is necessary to procure such permissions from the Senior Tutor or House Secretary twenty-four hours before the artful female is to inject her touch of potential scandal between sober Georgian walls...
...Demanded cancellation of interest on Bonus loans. Lender the law of 1931 veterans have borrowed $1,500,000,000 at interest rates varying from 6% to 3½%. Abolition of interest charges would save them some $50,000,000 a year. This resolution, the only one on which radicals and conservatives were in complete agreement, was adopted by a rousing viva voce vote on the convention floor. A legislative lobby will attempt to put it through the next session of Congress...
...demonstration. Bruno Walter (real name: Schlesinger) was first of the Jewish musicians to lose his job last spring in Germany. A conductor without an orchestra, he has drifted around since then, giving guest performances in Holland, Austria, London. Impressed with his martyrdom Philharmonic subscribers, who usually save their hero-worship for Toscanini. stood up when the big. kindly German came on stage, clapped him louder and longer than they ever clap his sensitive, scholarly performances. Beethoven and Brahms-Walter's program last week -were painstakingly conservative. The other big-league conductors played almost as safe. Koussevitzky added Scriahin...
...single breath, mourned the passing of the Orchestra's president, Alexander Van Rensselaer, and pleaded for support so that the orchestra might go on. This week at a banquet promoted by William Curtis Bok, the Philadelphia Orchestra's unsold season tickets were auctioned in an attempt to save the players a pay-cut of 19%. With its orchestra at stake Philadelphia is overlooking the excursions of ils fair-haired conductor who has just been...
...this dilemma I considered any attempt to save his life entirely useless. But as I had ever considered it a duty to use every means in my power to preserve life when called to administer relief, I proceeded to cleanse the wound, give it a superficial dressing, not believing it possible for him to survive 20 minutes. On attempting to reduce the protruding portions, I found that the lung was prevented from returning by the sharp point of the fractured rib, over which its membrane had caught fast, but by raising up the lung with the forefinger of my left...