Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee last week clustered about 74-year-old Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, wrung his hand, gave him congratulatory back pats. They had just approved his latest version of a bill to reform the national banking system on a tremendous scale...
...Leitmotifs. Inspired by Wag ner, he wrote music of stirring beauty. But most of his later, more original works have struck laymen as hideous and obscure. They have had a certain technical interest in that they have grown out of extensive experiments with chromatics and the twelve-tone scale. They illustrate new elaborately propounded principles which many a young ultra modern is endeavoring to cultivate. But such cerebral mat ters have little interest for the rank & file of orchestra subscribers. Philadelphians were plainly grateful last week for new music they could understand. With the 532 performers they applauded vigorously...
...afford to be brief, as the preparatory committee will offer its plans tonight on a large scale to the students of Harvard. Wolfgang Magnus...
...major part of the fieldwork is to devoted to large scale excavations at Starcevo. This site is located upon an ancient bank of the Danube, the present course of which runs three miles to the south of it. Culture-bearing deposits were discovered here in the course of brickmaking...
...American people seems hardly strong enough to prevent mulcting the public a la Jay Gould without drastic regulation. But the later effectiveness of the Interstate Commerce Commission points the way to a practical control of American economy. The basic industries of the nation do business on a nation-wide scale, and are subject to control by the federal government. Thus it has the power to establish a truly effectual regulation of the commerce, and to institute a measure of the economic order which is needed. It is too soon to hope for developments of such magnitude, but when they come...