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Brahm's Quartet in B flat by the Lener String Quartet of Budapest (Columbia, $10)?Brahms in a solemn, pastoral mood treated by the Leners in the lush, romantic fashion characteristic of their gypsy confrčres...
...Herbert Hoover" was written last week upon H. J. res. 133, thus completing the enactment of legislation to reduce 1929 income and corporation taxes...
When Speaker Longworth resumed his chair, there was no roll call on H. J. Res. 133, only a rising vote. With his gavel handle the Speaker went through the motions of counting while a sharp-eyed clerk took the actual tally, whispered the result up to him for announcements: 282 to 17. Tax reduction had been approved by the House four days after its introduction-a new record...
Shamed by the House's despatch on tax reduction, the Senate began an attempt at imitation. Finance Committee approved H. J. Res. 133 quickly, unanimously. Out upon the Senate floor, however, it stirred old dissensions. Republican Leader Watson wanted to set aside the tariff bill for the tax bill. Others clamored for a completion of the tariff wool schedules first. Western Senators scowled at reduction of the corporation tax, beneficial chiefly to eastern industry. Senator Couzens of Michigan complained that the consumer, having already paid the 1929 tax to corporations, would not profit by that phase...
...attention by performing unusual music. In last week's concert Conductor Sokoloff seemed more than ever an apostle of the curious. Following Chabrier's Marche Joyenuse, he presented d'Indy's seldom-heard Jour d'Eté la Montagne, then three Manhattan premières-First Airphonic Suite for RCA Theremin* and Orchestra by Russian Joseph Schillinger; Overture to a Don Quixote by Jean Rivier, 33-year-old Parisian; and New Year's Eve in New York by Werner Janssen, 30, Manhattan jazz pianist and composer. Critics paid scant attention to the first half...