Word: capitalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago Alan Bush threw another musico-political bomb: a leftist piano concerto. The concerto started normally, but in the middle of its last movement the pianist stopped and a tenor voice swung out in a long, earnest recitative on the undignified position of artists in capitalist society...
...crumbs that Columbia and NBC let fall, the wholesale chains are objects of mingled horror and envy. Columbia's president draws his share of that feeling. But Judson loses no sleep over what his less successful rivals think of him. Looking like a Daily Worker caricature of a capitalist, he sits behind an enormous French walnut desk in Manhattan's Steinway Building, continuously smoking big Havana cigars. Says he: "Managers are employes of artists. An artist is perfectly free to hire any manager he wants." But when A. G. M. A. representatives last month wanted to look...
...things that depress U. S. liberal churchmen is that the Church is supported largely by the upper and middle classes, by people who believe that God is a capitalist. Although many churchmen have accustomed their congregations to socially radical words from the pulpit, most parsons pipe the tunes which businessmen call. Last week in a Chicago suburb (Barrington, Ill.) there was a prodigious politico-religious piping. Occasion: "The Barrington Town Warming Plan ... a combination of the early American town meeting and the old time religious revival." Tune-caller: Barrington's biggest business, Jewel Tea Co., Inc., makers...
Brenda Frazier at 17 is shapely, wide-eyed, with a striking shoulder length of blue black hair. Her grandfathers were a Chicago grain broker named Frank Pierce Frazier and Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor, a Canadian capitalist who used to manage the Bank of Montreal and whose Lady is social matriarch of Nassau. At eleven, she struck the Sunday supplements as the centre of a scandalous financial row between her divorced parents, each of whom sought to prove the other unfit to be her custodian. Fight and notoriety continued until her father died...
...citizen who had the most to do with getting them home was an adventuresome San Francisco capitalist named Frederick B. Thompson, brother of Novelist Kathleen Norris. In his remarkable past he has played around with such varied characters as Jack London and Mexico's Rebel Pancho Villa. He had long since retired with a comfortable fortune and stomach ulcers when, in 1937, his young son David and his young nephew Jimmy Benét (son of Poet William Rose Benét) went to fight in Spain. Word that David had been wounded took Frederick Thompson posthaste to Madrid...