Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, New York's voluble Senator Royal S. Copeland had been sitting for days as chairman of the Senate Joint Maritime Committee considering last month's Maritime Commission report. That 17-page document by Joseph Patrick Kennedy bluntly declared: "Labor conditions in the American Merchant Marine are deplorable. . . . The employer, for his part, has fostered long hours, low wages and cramped quarters. The employe, meanwhile, has abused his employment in a manner that would not be tolerated in any other industry...
...sound-offs of industrial leaders and soothsayers. Among the few whose remarks are taken seriously is Colonel Leonard Porter Ayres, vice president of Cleveland Trust Co. Last week Colonel Ayres was not impressed by a 50? rise in scrap prices and the first rise since August in the New York Times business index. Like some M.Ps. in Britain (see p. 14), he predicted mainly gloomy things...
...single Carnegie Hall concert. Noted Violinist Efrem Zimbalist played on his famed Lamoureux (Strads, like Pullman cars, all have individual names). Listeners marveled at the mellow, homogeneous tone quality of the eight glistening, red-gold instruments played by the Musical Art Quartet and the Stradivarius .Quartet of New York, the small string orchestra over which senatorial Walter Damrosch waved a deliberate baton. The occasion for this Stradivarius display was the 200th anniversary of the death of Antonio Stradivari. Proceeds went to the recently founded Stradivarius Memorial Association, which helps make fine instruments available to talented young musicians...
...York's Yiddish theatre district on lower Second Avenue, which has produced such fine actors as Paul Muni, does not often bring forth a popular song. Last week it had apparently turned the trick...
...song entitled Bei Mir Bist Du Schön, from a Jewish musical comedy (I Would If I Could) by Sholom Secunda and Jacob Jacobs. The song went practically unnoticed until last summer Johnny & George, a Negro piano team, played it at a Jewish summer resort in New York's borsch belt, then brought it to a Broadway night club. There it was heard by Saul Chaplin and Sammy Cahn, two East Side boys who had written Posin', Shoe Shine Boy, Rhythm Is Our Business, could recognize a song when they heard it. They put English lyrics...