Word: buts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greater of the two was bewhiskered Johann II, who wrote the Blue Danube and the operetta Fledermaus. One cause of his greatness was the jealous ambition of his mother, Frau Anna Strauss. Her husband Johann, one of the doggiest of Vienna's gay dogs, transgressed (to the extent of...
But Johann himself did not slip, was soon turning out waltzes to beat the band. At the peak of his career he visited the U. S., conducted one gigantic concert with a chorus of 20,000 and 100 assistant conductors, was so frightened by the experience that he scurried back...
So far, the big U. S. recording companies have been too busy improving the fidelity of discs to worry about film. But last fortnight London's Society for Cultural Relations with the U. S. S. R. showed Londoners that the Soviet Government had been pioneering in film records. At...
Depression I finally knocked the props from under Mr. Eaton, washed away his industrial controls. By 1932 he was left with little except his Cleveland securities house, Otis & Co. But Mr. Eaton still rode to hounds. And last week he rode off again to the financial wars.
To Newark, defeated after a bitter fight before the CAA to hold the airlines, the opening of North Beach is a sad blow. But it is a blow to civic prestige rather than to civic economy. From Newark to Manhattan and Queens will move several thousand airport employes and their...