Word: beanstalk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outgo. In fiscal 1940 the Government hopes to spend nearly half a billion less than this year-$8,995,000,000. With the world becoming unsafe for democracy again, biggest increase will be in national defense, and a real beanstalk in Franklin's garden is now interest on the national debt, which in 1940 will...
...Samuel Gardner, onetime Associate Conductor Modeste Alloo of the Cincinnati Symphony. Last week two movements of the prize-winning quintet were played over an NBC program and the composer's name announced: Louis Gruenberg. Well known for his murky, savage Emperor Jones, his light, charming Jack & the Beanstalk, Composer Gruenberg, nevertheless, received his money by mail. This week the Lake Placid Club will be the scene of the first concert performance of his work, but Louis Gruenberg will not be there. The Club bars Jews not only as members but as guests and amplifies this prohibition in conventional, unmistakably...
...role in Roberta for two years, made his baritone debut last summer singing Gilbert & Sullivan in St. Louis and Central City, Colo. To replace Baritone Julius Huehn, he went to Chicago fortnight ago to sing star parts in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Gruenberg's Jack & the Beanstalk, was engaged to repeat the performance. The latter role requires a shrill falsetto. Undaunted, Baritone Middleton boasted: "I have a freak voice, a peach of a falsetto. I'd make a good yodler...
Declared Verner W. Main, a Michigan Republican elected to the House last year with the aid of local Townsendites (TIME, Dec. 30) : "I am in favor of the investigation but I don't think we ought to spend $25,000 or $50,000 cutting down a beanstalk to see why Jack doesn't fall. . . . You are attempting to do that which Canute of old failed to do, when he made his futile gesture of commanding the ocean to recede...
...colleagues, especially Colleagues Couch and politically important onetime Senator Elaine. He humbly accepted and executed the gold-buying program of his President's Professor Warren. Never does he talk big, like his fellow titan General Johnson, well knowing that lest some upstart Jack arise to climb a beanstalk of prejudice and perhaps calumny, the RFC had best be known as a gentle giant...