Word: yon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yon waiting, neath the Golden Bamboo...
Sarawaki, I'll always dream of yon...
...securities for 1) otherwise identical non-gold-clause bonds, or 2) cash at par. This was a plain invitation by the Government to the public: If you are afraid of inflation, cask your bonds now and use the money to hoard commodities or anything else you think will protect yon from inflation. Little danger did the Treasury run of the public's demanding $10,000,000,000. Any bondholder who wants cash can do far better by selling his Federal securities on the market (last week Governments were up to 117) than by demanding par value from the Treasury...
Composer George Gershwin was one of the first skeptical listeners but he signed the first sale order. Honest Fritz Reiner, Philadelphia's opera conductor, spoke praisingly at the first demonstration. Soloist was Organist Pietro Yon of St. Patrick's Cathedral (TIME, May 7, 1934). Under his command, the new instrument seemed capable of a thousand effects. It was full-toned and rich, eerie and soft. In a modern pipe organ, similar sounds depend on electric blowers. A separate pipe is required for each separate tone. Mechanism of the new instrument is all in the console...
...addition the club will sing "Chorale and Finale from Dic Meistersinger," by Wagner; "My Bonny Lass," by Morely; three love songs from Brahms' "Opus": "Nightingale, thy sweetest song," "A tremer's in the branches," and "From yon hills"; and choruses from "Iolanthe," by Sullivan. Egbert W. Fisher '36 and William G. Kirby '35 will perform as accompanists...