Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ohio. In his second week as Governor, John W. Bricker (successor to Democrat Martin Davey) had fired 2,000 State employes. Ever a ready trough for jobbing politicos, the Highway Department supplied 1,310 of the dismissals. Politicians normally expect to slip in their followers after economy waves subside, but local dispensers in Ohio last week were actually worried lest John Bricker keep the vacancies vacant...
Married. Nelson Eddy, 37, radio, concert and cinema singer; and Ann Franklin, 40, divorced wife of Cinema Director Sidney Franklin; he for the first time, she for the second; in Las Vegas...
Divorced. Nona McAdoo de Mohrenschildt Cowles Taylor, second of the five daughters of California's ex-Senator William Gibbs McAdoo (by his three wives,* he had respectively three sons and three daughters; two daughters; no children); from her third husband, Francis Taylor, Manhattan socialite; in Reno. Grounds: mental cruelty...
Last week Ives's Second Pianoforte Sonata, almost entirely neglected since he completed it in 1915, got its first Manhattan performance at a recital by enterprising U. S. Pianist John Kirkpatrick. Composer Ives's long-unheard work turned out to be a sort of musical equivalent to Author Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England. Subtitled Concord, Mass., 1840-60, it attempted to paint in music the surroundings and personalities of such famed New Englanders as Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau and the Alcotts. Most listeners found Composer Ives's complicated tone-portraits hard to grasp...
...philosopher as well as a composer and businessman, Ives often writes lengthy prefaces to his compositions. Each movement of his Second Pianoforte Sonata is preceded by a long essay in hardbitten English. Of them he remarks in his dedication: "These prefatory essays were written by the composer for those who can't stand his music - and the music for those who can't stand his essays; to those who can't stand either, the whole is respectfully dedicated...