Word: membered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though Stravinsky refers to Irving Fine as "my son," his compositions are distinguished by originality of style. In an attempt at classification, Boston critics have dubbed him a member of the Stravinsky-Piston-Boulanger school, but the title is essentially meaningless. He writes with extreme craftsmanship and ingenious contrapuntal technique, marked by a delicate sense of appropriateness and taste...
...wife, a slim, handsome woman, entertained well and blended perfectly into crowds at country-club dances. He had three healthy children, two automobiles (a 1946 Buick and a 1948 Austin), and an old but suitably located eleven-room house on Staten Island. He was a tireless member of clubs, banking associations, civic committees and charity organizations...
Amid these signs of deflation, President Truman stubbornly insisted that inflation was still the threat. But most Government economists were talking differently. Dr. Ewan Clague, Commissioner of Labor Statistics, estimated that the cost of living might drop 10% within a year. Outspoken Marriner S. Eccles, Federal Reserve Board member, agreed that the time had come to drop talk of inflation. Said he bluntly: "I believe we have been in a recession for several months. But it will not be too severe nor of long duration...
...measure. Only expert parliamentary maneuvering by Senator Melley saved the bill in the upper chamber. However, by delaying renewal of the discussion until this week, the House has given Toomey time to strengthen his forces, and another vote may be close. Though the "Citizens Committee" has only one known member, Miss Spencer, and is not registered officially as a lobby at the State House, it may be able to change many votes during this well-timed breather...
Died. Prince August Wilhelm ("Auwi") von Hohenzollern, 62, fourth son of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and only member of the royal family to join the Nazi party, which he served as an SA officer until Goring kicked him out in the 1934 purge; of a lung ailment; in Stuttgart...