Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have repressed a few scarce swing classics for their members. But the commercial record companies are chiefly interested in making and selling new records, and the hot clubs are composed of amateurs uninterested in administrative detail. Wide open, therefore, was the place which a brand new Hot Record Society undertook last week to fill...
...indictments. Atlas Tack was crow-barred from about $2 to $28 per share in less than a twelvemonth. That rousing performance was almost duplicated in 1935, the stock rising in less than four months from around $9 to above $30 per share. And this time the Securities & Exchange Commission undertook a study of Tack's odd behavior, with particular reference to the big brokerage house of W. E. Hutton & Co. which it suspects of manipulating the stock through the purchases and sales its clients were advised to make...
...married Charles Henry Swift. Packer Swift is one of the richest men in Chicago and has helped its Symphony for 30 years. Claire Dux soloed with the Chicago Symphony in 1935. Last week she sang with the Symphony again. While Packer Swift watched anxiously from his box, Dux undertook the Strauss and Mozart she has loved since youth. Though her voice has lost freshness and size, she treated every phase with marvelous control. When, later in the week, Dux repeated her concert, she caused the Journal of Commerce's Claudia Cassidy to exclaim of Strauss's Morgen...
...girl choir sang these strange, loose lines of melody with dignity and devotion. Listeners found them equally able when they undertook the complicated part-writing of Orlandus de Lassus and Tallis. They thrilled when the girls implored God's mercy in a hymn which flagellants are said to" have howled along German roads in the plague year...
...Emperor Napoleon now, he quarrelled with Czar Alexander I, he undertook to reprimand that monarch. He won the battle of Borodino but lost three hundred eighty thousand men. In October 1813 he lost at Leipsic to a Russian-Prussian-Austrian coalition. His enemies marched into Paris, the Emperor left for Elba...