Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Composer Damrosch began to conduct the New York Symphony and Oratorio Societies 50 years ago, kept the former until 1927, year before it merged with the Philharmonic, founded the Damrosch Opera Company and made $53,000 the first season. He made himself nationally famous by his lectures on Wagner, is still active with a children's music hour on the radio. Arthur Guiterman, whose verses in oldtime Life and elsewhere were for a generation as much of a U. S. landmark as the drawings of Charles Dana Gibson, still publishes skittish poems, but has in recent years tried more...
James Madison was still living, New York State was about to abolish slavery, passenger railroads were about to be realized when Septimus Winner was born in Philadelphia in 1827. Joseph Winner, his father, made violins and Septimus studied music almost from the cradle. "Sep" got out of the Philadelphia High School at 20, began to give lessons on the banjo, guitar and violin, and married a watchman's daughter named Hannah Guyer. He played at balls and parades, was a member of the Philadelphia Brass Band. Hit by the hard times, he wrote in his diary: "Delightful...
...calibre that rural school boards could not hope to match. Commissioner Studebaker and Secretary of the Interior Ickes were piped through from Washington; Columbia University's Dr. Walter Boughton Pitkin (Life Begins At Forty) and Boston's liberal old Merchant Edward A. Filene spoke from New York...
...What would happen to Joe Di Maggio [of the American League's New York Yankees] if there were no National League...
...Economist John Henry Williams, world-famed authority on money and banking. But bald, caustic Professor Williams, despite the fact that his department conferred on him in 1933 its prized Nathaniel Ropes chair, left Cambridge a month later to become economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Since then a Harvard professor chiefly in name, he has been upped to the bank's deputy governorship, which the 1935 Banking Act converted into a vice-presidency. Last week, with a shrewd competitive stroke, Harvard's Conant tethered an elusive man and filled a difficult job. He appointed John...