Word: itemize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Item: Richard Strauss felt superior to the Nazis but not to their money, spent his time writing music for Goering's wedding and Hirohito's birthday. He was, when I visited him last summer, entrenched in Lausanne's most chic hotel, a stooped, white-haired man who was rather ashamed of his position in the world during the past 15 years...
...Item: Edwin Fischer, I was very reliably informed, was "made" as a pianist on the money provided for him and his orchestra by his former wife, a Jewess. But with the arrival of the Nazi regime he not only played in Germany, but ousted the Jews from his orchestra before he was even requested to. Fischer is now a Professor at the Conservatory of Lucerne, whose Meisterkurs for piano draws him 500 francs per pupil per year (ten lessons). He gives recitals throughout Switzerland and will appear in London next month...
...Item: Alfred Cortot, Minister of Music for the Vichy Government, was hissed off the stage in Paris this month but performs with great success in Switzerland...
...week's work was a breeze. The President combined social affairs (see The Capital) with business (principal item: a labor arbitration plan for the building industry), and had time left over to think about a bill which would prevent top officials from taking along government documents (such as the voluminous Morgenthau diary) when they leave Washington. For the second time this year he called in GOP and Democratic Congressional leaders for a "congenial meeting." Again they discussed such safe topics as extending the Maritime Commission's ship operating authority...
Amid these grim prospects, Soviet newspapers last week carried a brief item that, to Soviet readers, made the Amerikanskis look crazy as ever: the U.S. Government authorized farmers to destroy 20,000,000 bushels of low-grade potatoes, which Uncle Sam had paid for; the potatoes were deteriorating too fast to be collected, sold, or shipped to foreign folk...