Word: artur
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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Furtwaengler is 38, a native Berliner, with a very impressive record?pupil of the boresome, but thorough, Rheinberger, theatre Conductor at L?beck and Zurich, successor of Artur Bodanzky at the Mannheim opera, Conductor of the Tonkünstler Orchestra at Vienna, successor of Richard Strauss at the Berlin Opera, Director of the Berlin Musikfreunde, of the Berlin Philharmonic, of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. On the score of previous experience, he holds his own with all newcomers...
...situation leading up to the present revolt is similar. President Artur da Silva Bernardes is a reformer. To improve the nation's finances, he cut the Army appropriations, and, unheard-of thing, he introduced the income tax to Brazil. A section of the Army became peeved at the cut in their appropriations, and the rich planters, who suffered most from the hated income tax, became the President's intractable enemies, the more so since he was also a vigorous opponent of peonage (system of quasi-feudalism) which they were anxious to have recognized...