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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nineteen other directors went out with him, and a new board of twelve was set up. consisting of six bankers, five actors and directors and a representative of Paul Joseph Goebbels' film chamber. In effect this meant that Propagandist Goebbels had gobbled the entire firm, for all the other directors were hand-picked...
...Fairy's Kiss) tells how a baby is kissed by the Queen of the Fairies and parted from his mother. He grows into a handsome young man and falls in love. The Fairy reappears, kisses him again, and he follows her into the sea. Stravinsky meant the kiss to symbolize the bestowal of genius upon Tschaikovsky, called the whole work an act of "homage," pieced it together from Tschaikovsky melodies. The music was distinguished only by some new harmonic departures. George Balanchine's choreography proceeded unimpeachably, caused raised eyebrows only when the Fairy Queen, in the midst...
...nominations for directors were called for, the meeting was perfunctory. Then a serious-faced, bespectacled young man named Howard 0. Hatcher nominated President Homer Martin of the United Automobile Workers. Several staring stockholders snickered. One asked: "Is this a joke, or what?" Replied Chairman Smith: "No, it's meant seriously." Leaning back in his chair, Mr. Hatcher, who is research secretary for the Council for Social Action of the Congregational and Christian Churches, explained: "Since Mr. Martin has shown considerable interest in and understanding of General Motors . . . it might be a good policy to have Organized Labor represented...
...fiscal year ending two months hence ($309,000,000 bigger than anticipated) of a $418,000,000 deficit for fiscal 1938 when the Budget was supposed to balance. Primary cause of these deficits is the failure of actual revenue to come up to the expectations of last January. This meant that instead of the public debt reaching a peak of $35,026,000,000 on July 1 and then receding, it would kee on going up and reach $35,750,000,000 by a year from July. It meant that a Budge balance was still around the corner...
...stop it, the manifesto published in paid advertisements last summer by the American Iron & Steel Institute declaring war on John L. Lewis. It was evident to Mr. Taylor that Steel's traditional "blood and brimstone" labor policies were thoroughly outmoded. Yet "to give in to Labor spinelessly meant to lose control over the business one had been hired to manage. To fight Labor adamantly meant, for a long time, no business...