Word: signed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Benito Mussolini was worried last week by the mounting costs of his African war or the continued resistance of the Ethiopians, he gave no sign of it to a hundred foreign journalists who motored out with him to what used to be the Pontine marshes, are now rich wheat fields and model Fascist towns. In the past six years three of such towns have been built (Littoria, Sabaudia, Pontinia), all following the same basic plan, and all equipped with a town hall, parish church, school, police station, Fascist headquarters, cinema, sports field and playgrounds before the first private home...
...concentrators in the field 98, and other students in music about 300, sign the petition, the University will and itself in a position to act favorable or admit that one of the best music libraries in the country is inaccessible for ample study...
...cannot sign our names to this, but it is no crank letter. You want to know what the disabled veterans think about the World Peace-ways "Hello, Sucker" matter. Here is what two of us think, and we know there are many more who would say the same thing...
Once each year, in theory, the legal owners of a corporation assemble for an accounting of the stewardship of their property. In practice the annual stockholders' meeting is largely a matter of form. Only with the greatest difficulty can stockholders be persuaded to sign enough proxies for a quorum, let alone attend in person. The few stockholders who do attend can do little except talk, since the majority of the shares are generally voted, not by disinterested stockholder representatives, but by a management primarily interested in staying in office. Almost nothing short of scandal ever bestirs the absentee owners...
Last November "Essandess," as Simon & Schuster sign their chirrupy advertisements, came out with the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas newly edited by Pianist Artur Schnabel. Last January the firm hired a music editor, German-born Emil Hilb, who conducted the Denver Philharmonic in 1932-33. Last week Simon & Schuster published "Four Operatic Masterpieces"*-excerpts from Carmen, Faust, Tannhduser, II Trovatore, transcribed for players of average ability by Pianist Leopold Godowsky. Handsomely illustrated and containing notes on opera plots and composers, the venture, if it clears expenses, will belie Simon & Schuster's assertion that music publishing is for them no more...