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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale an hour before Mr. Browder was due at Strathcona Hall (capacity: 407) one afternoon last week, police had to close the doors, with nearly 500 inside, sitting, standing and hanging from the windows. By the time Mr. Browder was squeezed in through a side door, 2,500 more undergraduates and townsmen were milling outside, raising ladders to the windows, trying to jimmy the doors. Delighted Comrade Browder, mistaking a lark for an eagle, began by hailing the Bill of Rights (laughter and applause), then launched into a discourse on "America and the Imperialistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Browder at Yale | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Samuel Chotzinoff, Manhattan music critic and Toscanini fan, who got the Maestro to accept the job of conducting NBC's broadcasts (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Toscaninnies | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Over Vienna's jitterbugs in ¾ time ruled two men with more power than the Emperor himself. They did not make Vienna's laws, but they wrote its waltzes. These two men were Johann Strauss, father & son, subjects of a joint biography (Johann Strauss, Father and Son - Greystone Press; $3.25) published last week by Viennese Exile H. E. Jacob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Waltz Kings | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...assistant conductors, was so frightened by the experience that he scurried back to Vienna for good. Seventeen years later, in 1889, a new popular musical movement had begun to sweep Johann and his waltzes into history. It came from the U. S. and it was in 4/4, not ¾, time. The Waltz Kings were succeeded by a March King: John Philip Sousa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Waltz Kings | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

From the Washington front, another gun began firing from an unsuspected emplacement. For probably the first time in his checkered career Cyrus Eaton found he had old, reforming Senator George Norris on his side. "The Power Trust." said the frail Senator in a prepared statement, "is caught at its old tricks. ... It happens again that the holding company is robbing its own subsidiaries, in order to enrich itself." Rejoined Willkie: "Completely and absolutely false." Back came George Norris with another blast to the effect that the cost of the stock deal would be reflected in electric rates paid by Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Eaton to the Wars | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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