Word: virginals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Confirmed the nomination of Charles Harwood as Governor of the Virgin Islands...
...Appointed his old friend, Charles Harwood, 60, New York lawyer and onetime district judge in the Panama Canal Zone, to the Governorship of the Virgin Islands...
...gesture is noble in purpose, and-to those who appreciate the endless, grab-bag complexity of Interior's duties-understandable. Interior sells electricity, protects the Indians, manages forests, preserves historic buildings, sets minimum soft-coal prices, interferes in the government of Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, rules Western cattle ranges, settles irrigated areas in semi-arid regions, watches over wild life and fish. All these sprawling activities are linked by a central theme: conservation of natural resources...
Conductor Mitropoulos is a pious Orthodox Catholic who always wears a crucifix and a medal of the Virgin, almost followed his family's bent toward the monastery. Composer and pianist, he was trained in Greece and Germany, built the orchestra of the Athens Conservatory, made his first U. S. splash in Boston. He looks somewhat like a figure from a can vas by another great Greek, Domenico Theotocopuli (called El Greco in Spain, where he lived). The Mitropoulitan way of playing music is a bit El Grecoesque: lean, angular, edgy, sometimes distorted...
Textile Economist A. W. Zelomek forecast as much as a 15% price increase in goods made from virgin wool, a 5% increase in goods made from reworked wool...