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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WPA symphony orchestras employ unemployed musicians. But they seldom draw crowds or move their listeners to rafter-raising applause. An exception to this rule is Chicago's WPA orchestra, the Illinois Symphony. When it was first organized in 1935 the Illinois Symphony was one of the Federal Music Project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: WPA Maestro | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

To Dartmouth's grey, veteran Track Coach Harry Hillman, onetime Olympic runner, the result has since been more headache than help. Year after year on the springy spruce track, his athletes stepped off more remarkable times in practice, were beaten in unremarkable time in competition elsewhere. Last March, to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On Spruce | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Organizers of the Progressive Schools' Committee were Mr. & Mrs. William Mann Fincke Jr., who run little Manumit School on a 175-acre farm in the Berkshire foothills at Pawling, N. Y. Aided by scholarship funds from an anonymous philanthropist, Mrs. Fincke, a buxom, vivacious blonde, daughter of famed Feminist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Melting-Pot Schools | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

>When the children, habituated to working under orders in Germany, were given the voluntary responsibility of feeding chickens at Manumit, the chickens went hungry.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Melting-Pot Schools | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

For more than a year Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co. has been smoothly squelching Financier Robert Young in a spectacular battle for control of the rich Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. (TIME, April 25 et seq.). Robert Young controlled the common stock of Alleghany Corp., top holding company of the oldtime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Out One, Out All | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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