Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President continued his almost alphabetical breakfasts at 8 a.m. for members of the Senate and House of Representatives. The Senatorial list, already down to the S's-Shortridge, Swanson, etc.-preceded down among the W's-Wagner, Walsh, Waterman, Wheeler. At one breakfast last week, for the first time, were three women - staid Mrs. Mary Theresa Norton of New Jersey, sprightly...
...Passed Senator Johnson's resolution for an investigation of bituminous coal mining and strike conditions in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio. Chairman Watson of the Interstate Commerce Committee appointed Senators Gooding, Pine, Wheeler, Metcalf and Wagner to visit the mines, Senator Couzens refusing to join in what he called "a hippodrome," "a circus performance...
fThe new chairman was Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota, next-to-youngest Senator. Senators Wagner of New York and Cutting of New Mexico are both brand-new Senators this term. The other New Mexican, Senator Bratton, and Senator McNary of Oregon were new to the Committee. The only old-timers besides Senator Walsh were Senators Kendrick of Wyoming, Pittman of Nevada, Ashurst of Arizona...
Cyrena van Gordon, noted American contralto of the Chicago Civic Opera Company who sang a leading part in Wagner's "Lohengrin", said this in her suite in the Hotel Ritz Carlton yesterday afternoon. Miss van Gordon pointed out that after all, an artist was a human being. She was especially prejudiced against men who carp at traces of individuality in the work of operatic artists...
...Thomas the poet. True, he lapsed a little in the Tschaikowsky B Flat Minor Concerto, but then the Concerto with all its noisy trappings was for Pianist Vladimir Horowitz*, and served him accordingly. Sir Thomas came back with Mozart's C Major Symphony, Berlioz' Chasse Royale et I'Orage, Wagner's Meistersinger overture. The audience stayed long after he was through, cheered him, regretted unanimously that he was to conduct only four concerts...