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...folk-songs, for the terseness and simplicity of much of his music, for the peasantlike economy with which he used the same themes over and over again, elaborating on them with the imagination of a genius. Brahms never married, never defied convention as did the overromanticized Rich ard Wagner. But he was no ascetic. His mother bred in him an Oedipus complex which never quite squared with the notion of women that he got while playing the piano as a boy in the red-light district of Hamburg. Brahms patronized brothels all his life, a fact never before printed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cleveland's Change | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

attended a reception in her honor, declared : "If my voice could reach every woman in the U . S. I'd say. 'If you are planning a pleasant trip outside your country where it is cool and charming ard everyone is friendly I advise you to come to Mexico City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 5, 1933 | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

...conservative financiers with fear and revived the hopes of millions & millions of debt-ridden citizens who instantly imagined plenty of cheap money in their pockets. Reluctantly Secretary of the Treasury Woodin, a financial conservative, had to admit for the first time: "Yes, we're off the gold stand ard - for the time being. But - ." He decided to keep to himself his skepticism of the results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Riding the Wave | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

Tobacco when he looked at the pile of proxies to be voted in his favor at the stockholders' meeting last week. No similar pleasure accrued to Stockholder Rich ard Reid Rogers who had attempted to muster a bloc in protest of President Hill's $2,000,000 bonus (TIME, March 23). When balloting time came Dissenter Rog ers saw his candidate for the directorate receive a paltry 11,980 votes out of 2,627,953. Angry, he spoke of carrying on his uphill anti-Hill fight in the courts. Emptier Plates. From a sales volume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Deals & Developments | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...paramount significance ard: these facts, in the last 13 years Japan has risen from supplying 3% of India's imported textiles to 13.6%; Great Britain has declined from 97.1% to 82%. Indian textile mills?anathema to St. Gandhi?now produce 45.2% of the national consumption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Pinch of Salt | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

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