Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, Pianist-Conductor Jose Iturbi opened the Lewisohn Stadium season with a meticulous rendering of Beethoven's Egmont overture. As usual, old Adolph Lewisohn, who built the Stadium, made a sweet, fumbling speech in which he announced that, besides Iturbi, Willem van Hoogstraten and Eugene Ormandy would lead the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. When Mayor LaGuardia made a speech Communist hecklers who had been waiting since late afternoon in the 25? seats chorused: "Yellow dog La-Guardia! Yellow dog LaGuardia!" Three nights later the Stadium offered a novelty -the first of eight pairs of operas, with scenery and Metropolitan...
...Cincinnati, Nippert Stadium opened with the first of a series of operas and concerts...
...Emanuel Cohen, vice president in charge of production, told company salesmen: "In 30 of the 35 pictures we have released during the last eight months there has not been a single cut made by the censors and only very minor eliminations in the five others." In Cleveland Stadium, 50,000 Catholics took the Legion of Decency pledge in unison. In Chicago the Catholic Daughters of America induced a like number of families to sign. The Philadelphia and Hartford Federations of Churches ap proved the Legion. Without mentioning it by name the Central Conference of American Rabbis commended its aims...
...delicate to stand much preliminary pounding. The day of the race he motored to Princeton where Venzke and Bonthron had been training separately, golfing together. There he put on track clothes, limbered up for a few minutes while a crowd of 25,000 Alumni Day visitors poured into Palmer Stadium. At the gun, Venzke, best stylist of the three, set the pace. Cunningham passed him at 500 yd., Bonthron on the next curve. What happened next was so amazing to spectators that they could scarcely believe their eyes. Cunningham reeled off the fastest third quarter on record - 61.8. Then...
After the reunioning classes had marched in order into the Stadium behind the Class of 1934, there was an interlude before the Ivy Oration of John Bridgers White '34 when the Class of 1909 awarded a series of honorary degrees to members of their class. Officiating at these ceremonies was the loading athlete of the class, Rand, who had conceived clever epigrams for the recipients. He awarded one to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt '09 on the basis of being the "democratic goat getter," but the real reason was because he brought back Pola Negri from his trip of exploration last year...