Word: strausses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Music Festival, which five years ago pledged itself to new or rarely performed works. In a sprawling tent at Ellenville, N.Y., the festival presented the Eastern premiere of Stravinsky's Canticum Sacrum, the premiere of a ballet by Villa-Lottos, Sibelius' music for The Tempest and Strauss's Elektra, Carl Orff's score for Midsummer Night's Dream. But the festival was dogged by bad luck and bad weather, last summer had to close up shop in midseason. This summer, operating from a new site, it has come back stronger than ever. Last week...
...party, she said, "I want to be the first to congratulate you," and passed the telegram along to him. Thus was Frederick H. Mueller, 65, informed that he had been chosen to fill the hole in the Eisenhower team left by the Senate's rejection of Lewis Strauss (TIME, June...
...good reasons made Michigan Republican "Fritz" Mueller a natural choice for Commerce Secretary: 1) as Assistant Secretary for three years (1955-58), then Under Secretary, and finally Acting Secretary after Strauss's resignation,'he is better equipped than anyone else to step into the top job as time runs out in the Eisenhower Administration; and 2) he should have little trouble getting Senate confirmation; his nomination as Under Secretary was quietly confirmed while the Strauss fight was going on. Moreover...
Mueller had blue-ribbon endorsements from ex-Secretary Sinclair Weeks, Strauss, and Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, a fellow Michigander...
Vindication of Dixon-Yates came just four weeks too late to help Lewis L. Strauss in his unsuccessful battle to win Senate confirmation as Secretary of Commerce. During the prolonged Strauss hearings (TIME, June 15 et seq.), Democrats made much of his role as AEC chairman in working out the Dixon-Yates contract, used it against him in the fight that led to the first turndown (49-46) of a presidential Cabinet nomination since the days of Teapot Dome...