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...helped draft the National Industrial Recovery Act and the Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act, then shifted from business-baiting ("the despotic power of those 'royal families' which control large industries") to business-boosting (as counsel to Ford Motor Co., Transamerica Corp.) and wound up a vehement opponent of labor-union "monopolies," social security, public housing, integration, minimum wage laws; of a heart attack; in Charlottesville...
...Nixon after midnight, close call. Kennedy led for a long time, but lost by over 13,000 votes. Gov. Wesley Powell, longtime vehement conservative, won by more than 20,000 over Bernard L. Boutin, Similarly inclined Sen. Styles Bridges won by 33,000. Republicans led in both Congressional districts...
...York City municipal finances), Ma returned to China around 1918 to teach, and to advise Chiang Kai-shek from time to time on economic matters. Always a maverick, he was arrested by the Nationalists during World War II as one of the Chiang government's most vehement Kuomintang critics. Ma later acknowledged that Communist Liaison Officer Chou En-lai "did everything in his power to save me." When Ma finally fled to Hong Kong shortly before Chiang's fall in 1949, it was Chou who sent a telegram inviting him to join the new Communist regime in Peking...
Thompson expressed vehement disapproval of the imitation of contemporary masters. "Nothing strikes me as more futile than to become a little Stravinsky or a little Bartok. I have tried, just as Stravinsky and Bartok have done, to make a purely personal synthesis of the musical teachings of the past." Thompson is no conservative, however. He says quite firmly that, "Modern music and, specifically, atonal composition seems to me to be a logical development from the experimentation of Wagner and Strauss. After all there are many passages in Wagner where there is extended tonal ambiguity. From this, it is just...
...experiment in treating Kirkland House diners to music during last Friday evening's meal met with vehement and mixed reaction from House residents polled at a music-less dinner last night. The prandial serenade, emanating from three strategically placed, borrowed speakers, was the fruit of an idea born to the Kirkland House Committee last fall...