Word: br
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...notably dull press conference, Franklin Roosevelt agreed with newsmen that they were all at the wrong end of Pennsylvania Avenue. The news was at the other end, in the Capitol, where Wendell Willkie was testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (see p. 16). Like Br'er Rabbit, the President was layin...
...Germany, every crop-haired infant Siegfried, every pig-tailed little Brünnhilde counts Richard Wagner one of Nazidom's special heroes. Composer Wagner not only glorified pagan German gods and goddesses in his Ring of the Nibelungs; he and his wife Cosima were also openly antiSemitic, believed and spread the racial nonsense preached by Count Joseph Arthur Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain. Yet Wagner himself was perhaps what Nazis call non-Aryan. He may have been the son of a supposedly part-Jewish actor named Ludwig Geyer. Last week this old contention, long pishtushed by German Wagnerites...
...Willkie at his Manhattan house, summoned musicians to see it. Putting politics before mythology, he crowed: "We are going to elect Willkie the conductor of 130,000,000 people for four years. ... He is playing the music from Wagner's opera Siegfried, in which Siegfried comes to awaken Brünnehilde, who has been asleep for eight years...
...citizen, ex-German Thomas Mann is a citizen-to-be. Since Adolf Hitler began to liquidate German scholarship in 1933, every ship from Europe has borne eminent scholars to the U. S. Today many of them teach in U. S. colleges and universities. At Harvard are ex-Chancellor Heinrich Brüning; famed Architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer; renowned City Planner Martin Wagner; Werner Jaeger, one of the world's most eminent classical scholars...
...Black Lion, M. Tallerie and a certain Major Bréhier were accused by the West African Mouride Tribe of fraud. M. Tallerie and a Mouride sheik named Bamba had signed a contract under which the former was to build a mosque in Touba, Negro religious centre near the west border of the Ivory Coast. The Colonial Council refused to pass on the project. Tallerie claimed indemnity from the tribe for alleged advances from his pocket. The Black Lion collaborated with Major Bréhier in writing angry letters to the tribesmen demanding M. Tallerie's money. The tribesmen...