Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winter of 1932-33 newshawks covering the President-elect first noted the formal relations between his daughter Anna and her husband, big, bald-browed Curtis Bean Dall. At the inauguration, Son-in-Law Dall put in a polite appearance, later visited the White House for a birthday party. Then the wiseacres of the Press had a surprise: not Daughter Anna but 22-year-old Son Elliott turned up in Nevada asking a divorce. Last week the Press finally got the news it had long expected. Mrs. Dall with Sistie and Buzzie slipped quietly out of the White House where...
...compulsory arbitration and company unionism." Caught flatfooted, NRAdministrator Johnson's Johnsonese for once failed him. Merely snorting "Ridiculous!" to the Darrow charges, he set Counsel Donald Richberg to writing the organization's counterbarrage. Meantime, an eloquent defense came from a high and unexpected quarter. To an NRA birthday celebration at Charlestown, W. Va., President Roosevelt, who usually lets the Blue Eagle fight its own battles, sent this message: "People who cannot see the forests for the trees make much of controversy in various groups which meet in NRA-employers, consumers, employes. NRA was deliberately conceived in controversy. . . . Before...
...heard the first Rosenkavalier, the first Egyptian Helen, the first Arabella, Strauss's latest opera (TIME, July 10). It was a right and fitting act of gratitude, therefore, for Dresden to stage a seven-day festival last week in honor of the greatest living composer's 70th birthday...
...known TIME, June 25, 1934 poverty. His domineering wife, an old-time singer, supports him when he says that there is no great glory in going to a pauper's grave like Schubert. Only at skat, his favorite recreation, will he risk a gamble. Strauss's 70th birthday brought forth countless praises. But the tall, ruddy-cheeked old composer remained as detached and matter-of-fact as when he said years ago: "If my compositions are good, or mark a new phase in musical progress, they will be honorably mentioned in histories of music-which nobody will read...
...Vienna also celebrated the Strauss birthday last week, but Strauss preferred to be in Dresden...