Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of only one rehearsal, youthful Conductor Barzin produced smooth, energetic interpretations of a program scarcely calculated to arouse enthusiasm. He is partial to his contemporaries, likes to balance comparable works by modern Europeans and Americans. His audiences at the Stadium heard seven U. S. composers, including three New Yorkers, Philip James (Overture in Olden Style on French Noels), Robert Braine (S. O. S.), Deems Taylor (Through the Looking Glass). Without frills, Barzin directs in a kinetic physical style, occasionally threatens to get ahead of his orchestra in timing. But some critics found the concerts directed by him the best...
...expected large demand for rye by distillers. In one day 7,000,000 bu. of rye were sold. (Total U. S. rye crop is normally about 40,000,000 bushels.) Report was that, attracted by high prices, 600,000 bu. of Canadian rye had been bought for import (in spite of the duty of 40? a bu.), that buyers were eagerly negotiating for more rye in Argentina as well as Canada. ¶ For over a year Orlando Weber, president of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp., held the New York Stock Exchange at bay. The Exchange wanted him to give more information...
...National Automobile Chamber of Commerce showing 195,000 cars turned out (compared with 95,000 in June 1932). Ford is not a member of the auto C. of C. So Ford's estimated output of 55,000 cars brings June 1933 production up to a round quartermillion. In spite of the fact that automobile production lagged behind 1932 until last April, production for the first six months of this year was (including Ford) 1,000,000 cars compared to 870,000 year ago. Steel, cotton and some other industries have had comparable booms but buying of steel and cotton...
Complete figures on the geographical distribution of summer school students revealed that this year in spite of the twenty per cent decrease in total enrollment, the number from New England rose from 1058 to 1068. Other figures with last year's in parenthesis follow: Middle States: 217 (173), South Atlantic States: 16 (27), North Central States: 75 (111), Western States: 57 (20), Foreign Countries: 21 (23). The statistics by states follows...
...Fifth-support accorded armed bands which are organized on its territory and which shall have invaded the territory of another State; or refusal, in spite of the demand of the invaded State, to take on its own territory all steps in its power to deprive the bandits aforesaid of all aid or protection...