Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hamstring him, Culbert Olson did what he promised, started a cleanup of workmen's compensation administration, building & loan scandals, other dung-heaps in the backyard which he had inherited from old Frank Merriam. To the $30-Every-Thursday Ham-&-Eggers who helped install him, he promised a special election to give their pension plan a chance this fall, talked of tacking to it a proposal to recall the legislators who wrecked his program. Culbert Olson hoped to be to California what he thinks...
Only treatment Mayo Clinic specialists could prescribe for Lou Gehrig was rest and special exercises. Although doctors said his grueling baseball career had nothing to do with his disease, he will never swing a bat again, nor even whip a fly rod. Said the Iron Horse last week, as he smilingly faced his enforced pasture: "I guess I have to accept the bitter with the sweet. If this is the finish, I'll take...
...until George Backer bought it and took it out of the narcotic ward last week, began selling cheap records as a promotion stunt last winter. The Post's Business Manager Jacob Omansky, ardent music-bibber, invented the scheme: the paper commissioned RCA Victor to make a series of special recordings, guaranteeing their cost ($150,000) should the venture fail. The music to be recorded was chosen by the Post's Musicritic Samuel Chotzinoff, a key figure in the plan because he is close to RCA's front door: its President David Sarnoff is his good friend. Keeping...
...ancestry back to the Revolution, had been head of little Trinity for 14 years before Buck Duke histed him to eminence. He followed Buck Duke's instructions to the letter (excerpt from Buck's indenture: "I advise that the courses at this institution be arranged, first, with special reference to the training of preachers, teachers, lawyers, and physicians, because these are most in the public eye, and by precept and example can do most to uplift mankind...
...band played in Germany, his audiences clamored for "Der Vashington Pust." The piece was played, as a "typical American" work, at the dedication of a German monument to Richard Wagner. European composers wrote pieces with titles like Vorwärts-A Washington Post, as if this were a special dance like the waltz or polka. An army officer told Sousa that in a Borneo jungle he met a boy with a violin, sawing out the familiar deedle-dee-dums of the march. How many millions of copies the Washington Post sold, John Philip Sousa never knew. Like many composers with...