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...purchased, although the total is well in the thousands. It is quality, not quantity, that counts. The purchases cover a wide range of subjects, and only the briefest summary can be attempted here. English literature stands first in the number of works acquired, partly because it has perhaps the widest appeal, but chiefly because certain large subscriptions, amounting to $7,500, were specifically given for the purchase of English prose fiction. As a result of this, the collection of English novels of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is rapidly growing, and the students in Professor Greenough's courses...
...Royal de la Monnaie under Conductor Maurice Bustin and the Madrid Symphony under Conductor Enrique Fernandez Arbos (Columbia, $10)?Representative music of the Spanish contemporaries de Falla, Breton, Albeniz, Turina. Because of de Falla's impending visit to the U. S. and the exotic interpretations of La Argentina, widest interest will be aroused by the dances from La Vida Breve...
Also renominated by the widest majority in the State's history was Republican Governor George F. Shafer...
...Lang's address several delegations from a large number of public bodies waited upon Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, urged him to put through Parliament a bill permitting the widest possible dissemination of birth control information "as an economic measure . . . as a most effective means of relieving unemployment . . . the population of Great Britain has increased beyond the country's resources...
Largely responsible for Circus ballyhoo is grizzled, bushy-browed Dexter Fellowes, Ringling pressagent. For 37 years Dexter Fellowes has been getting publicity for tent shows-a U. S. pressagent record. Business associates claim that he has the widest U. S. acquaintance. Even before the Circus got to town, his arrival was the signal for his friends of the press to wax waggish. He did not mind, for his policy is: let the newsmen write anything they like about...