Word: storms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Father Yvon wants most, he told French audiences last week in his rough-&-ready sailor's voice, is up-to-date radio equipment whereby he can pick up and rebroadcast to the whole fleet news, storm warnings, musical entertainment...
...directors of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society received last week with great relief. Last month they had engaged Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler to succeed Arturo Toscanini as the orchestra's general music director (TIME. March 9). Announcement of the Furtwängler appointment raised a storm of protest. Angry groups organized to boycott next season's concerts.' World-famed musicians served notice they would not solo with the Philharmonic if its leader was to be a man who had accepted and profited by the German Nazi regime...
...article in The American Forum: "The mongrel Negro race in America is rapidly approaching an awful crisis. . . . They go rollicking and cakewalking, apparently unaware of the storm that must inevitably burst...
Perhaps most arresting of all is John Sell Cotman's "Sheer Hulks in the Midway", a marine masterfully done in dark, sinister tones; one can almost smell the fitful gasps of fresh sea air puffing up before the approaching storm...
Indispensable to any high academic ceremony are the red doctoral hoods of Oxford. To Oxford, therefore, Heidelberg's Rector Magnificus Wilhelm Groh last month sent an invitation for the June birthday festival. Immediately a storm burst in the British Press. Indignantly the Manchester Guardian pointed to a list of 44 potent professors who had been cast out by Heidelberg for racial and political causes. To the London Times the philosophical Bishop of Durham gravely wrote: "It cannot be right that the universities of Great Britain, which we treasure as the very citadels of sound learning ... the vigilant guardians...