Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tennessee Valley Authority Act, as signed at the White House, specifically called for three administrators who believe heart & soul in the wisdom and feasibility of its manifold purposes. For chairman President Roosevelt promptly appointed Arthur Ernest Morgan, 55, president of Ohio's Antioch ("Work& Study") College. An engineer of much experience, Chairman Morgan has been fascinated by water and its uses since as a youngster he roved the Minnesota prairie. He wrote the Minnesota and Arkansas drainage codes, helped with those of Mississippi, Ohio, Colorado and New Mexico. He tamed the wild Miami River after it had flooded Dayton...
...mounted the work of a U. S. composer, people complained because its subject was not native. The opera Critic Stokes had in mind would be set in colonial Quincy, Mass. Its characters would be Puritans, Cavaliers, Indians; its themes, bigotry and a parson's conflict with his lustful soul. Critic Stokes asked Rochester's Howard Hanson if he would please write the music, submitted his scheme to the Metropolitan. Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza, knowing from experience with Composer Deems Taylor that critics are likely to be lenient with the efforts of their fellow critics, accepted the Hanson-Stokes...
...Jewish intellectualism is dead!" cried he. "National Socialism has hewn the way. The German folk soul can again express itself...
...Green '28, a writer of popular songs, has consented to play some of his compositions at the Jubilee on Friday evening it was announced last night. Green's Broadway fame was made by writing such songs as "Body and Soul," "Hello, My Lover, Goodbye," "I'm Yours," "Living in Dreams," "Rain, Rain, Go Away," and the more recent "You're Mine You." During orchestral intermissions, Green will entertain by playing in the downstairs Common Room of the Union...
...invitation has been sent to John Waldo Green '28, composer of "Body and Soul" and "You're Mine You" to supply entertainment of the Jubilee by playing some of his compositions on the piano. The reply has not yet been received...