Word: schmitte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only a preliminary estimate of damage could be made yesterday as the Arboretum staff, working under the direction of Superintendent Louis Victor Schmitt, cleared the paths and roadways, but Dr. Merrill said "several hundred trees are involved, including some of the oldest and rarest ones in the plantings...
...remainder of the program consists of "The Tragedy of Salome," by Florent Schmitt, noted modern French composer, and Metropoulos's own arrangement for orchestra of Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G minor for organ. The former was composed near the turn of the century and was intended to accompany the ballet of the same name. It is generally regarded as Schmitt's best known orchestral work and by incorporating the lurid scenario into the music gives both brilliance and dramatic atmosphere. Unlike many modern orchestrations, it does not attempt realistic methods (as, for example, did the Rivier overture...
...Music Merchants, the National Association of Sheet Music Dealers, the National Retail Musical Instrument Dealers Association, even the piano men began feeling allegro giocoso. President Edwin R. Weeks of the Music Merchants blithely buried the Jazz Age, declaring that "dreamy, tuneful melodies" are now the thing. President Robert A. Schmitt of the Sheet Music Dealers said: "People are singing again in family music groups. They have kicked out the 'Hotcha man.' They are playing the piano instead of the phonograph...
...this should have been investigated last week by the Ecuadorean Government, but Galapagos seemed too far away. Meanwhile yet another Galapagos expedition prepared to sail last week from Los Angeles. Its chief was Dr. Waldo Schmitt, curator of marine invertebrates at the Smithsonian Institution. Tiny crabs, polyps and miniscule sponges are Dr. Schmitt's specialty but he bravely promised to do his best as detective as well...
According to Dr. Schmitt the "Corporative State'' was to be achieved by dividing German business into twelve groups, each with a "Group Leader" sitting in the Grand Economic Council. This division has been made and on the Council sit Steel Tycoons Fritz Thyssen and Gustav Krupp von Bohlen. Beyond this point, however, the Nazi "Corporative State'' is still on the shelf...