Word: forli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The reason for this is that in September 1935 Standard failed to finance repayment of a $24,650,000 note issue, landed in a reorganization proceeding in a Delaware Federal District Court. Charges (among others) by Senator Robert Wagner's Law Partner Simon H. Rifkind that: a stock deal...
Victor Emmanuel, unlike the Byllesby interests, believes that butter is better than cannon in dealing with the New Deal. Fortnight ago, he hired a new president for Standard, white-haired, McNuttish-looking Leo Thomas Crowley, since 1934 chairman of FDIC. He hired Mr. Crowley through Washington's No. i...
Baldheaded, 51-year-old Baritone Friedrich Schorr of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera is a specialist in dignified Wagnerian Wotans. He almost never smiles. Last week, black-robed and bearded as Wagner's Flying Dutchman, he scowled his way through the second act, knelt with dignity upon the Metropolitan...
The swankest of the arts in 18th-Century London was Italian opera. Periwigged courtiers, who could not understand a word of it, raised their lace cuffs to applaud the ornate trilling of swivel-voiced prima donnas. Fashionable composers like Handel had to write their librettos in Italian. The Caruso of...
In 1728 a poet colleague of Fielding named John Gay decided to take Italian opera for a ride. He picked his tunes from the songs the butchers & bakers sang, strung them on a lowbrow plot about London cops, gangsters and bums, made his tattered characters ape the flouncy foibles of...