Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time in ten years the most enigmatic of modern composers had dared the sea, which he hates, to travel to the U. S., where he knows that even people who fail to understand his music will pay to see him. In Manhattan he was given his first reception by the League of Composers, long hospitable to all his efforts. Before he returns to Europe in April Stravinsky will have conducted big orchestras in Milwaukee, Chicago, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Boston. Other cities will hear him as a pianist when he plays transcriptions of his works with Violinist Samuel Dushkin...
Last week Mr. William Goadby Loew was some 25 years older, somewhat heavier, a great deal richer and a grandfather. Nevertheless, few accounts of any first flight social event, on field, track or ballroom floor, fail to mention the presence of the William Goadby Loews.* Mr. Loew stemmed from the ancient & honorable Manhattan Goadbys and his father was once comptroller of the City of New YorK. He is a member of a dozen clubs including the Brook, the Creek and the River. Mrs. Florence ("Queenie") Loew was the daughter of the late great George Fisher Baker...
...Hence the trend of state taxation is to provide relief for property owners. In Ohio and Florida voters have forced reductions in the real estate tax rate. New revenue, therefore, must come from other sources. Most popular alter native nearly everywhere is the graduated income tax. But income taxes fail to raise any worthwhile revenue in states with low per capita wealth. The Inter state Commission on Conflicting Taxation figured that whereas New York raises $5.60 per capita by its income tax, Arkansas raises only 11? per capita. Similarly Delaware raises roughly seven times as much per capita...
...plow has made the furrow (BANG!) but the sword defends it (BANG!). . . . To us Fascists fighting is more important than victory itself (BANG!), for when fighting is surcharged with mighty will-power then victory cannot fail (BANG...
...doubt and fear created by such a policy, both within and without an industry, fail to have its effect . . . in creating uncertainty and anxiety with a consequent retarding effect upon general recovery? What the power of government can do to one industry can likewise be visited upon any other form of business. No industry will be free from this devastating possibility...