Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sole Mio or Ach Du Lieber Augustin like a drowning man. Most-talked-about item of the series: a symphony by a 20-year-old post graduate Eastman student named Owen Reed. Some critics found Reed's brief, concise opus somewhat monotonous. Not so Director Hanson, who spoke of it with exuberant breath: "Comparison of Reed's work with Beethoven's can be made only by a critic in the year...
...guards live constantly with art, but they are not considered experts on the subject. And, perhaps because they look bored, their artistic views are seldom consulted. Last week the San Francisco Chronicle published a "Guard's-Eye View of the Arts" by one who was not consulted but spoke up anyway. He was 26-year-old Worth Graham Seymour, a rolling stone reporter, seaman and law student who has worked for the last month in the Palace of Fine Arts at the San Francisco Fair...
...When they were made, industrial production stood at 104. In January it slid to 101, in February and March to 98. In April, while it continued on its way down, Colonel Ayres's latest analysis stubbornly laid down conditions for recovery "to continue." A month before Joe Kennedy spoke, the Dow Jones stock averages had reached a 1938 high of 158.41, but last week they were about halfway back to their 1938 low of 98.95. Ambassador Kennedy was saying nothing (for publication) about stock prices...
Threats of war in Europe have been one factor retarding U. S. business, but last week a significant incident spoke in an-other tone of voice. After waiting anxiously for days, businessmen heard Adolf Hitler speak (see p. 18). Promptly the London market spurted up and the New York market headed down-a pointed suggestion that the worries of U. S. business are made in the U. S. Two of those worries...
After a short interval the blonde spoke up from the rear, "Oh, thank you! I didn't want you to think we're so ignorant we didn't, know what we were looking at." Thereupon the limousine disappeared down Massachusetts Avenue, leaving Grout entirely bewildered...