Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Monday Critic Lawrence Oilman had the sniffles. Reading Donald Tovey's recondite Essays in Musical Analysis, he came across a sentence which made him hop out of bed and call up NBC's Musical Commentator Samuel Chotzinoff. Did Mr. Toscanini know that Wagner's original prelude to the third act of Tannhauser, which got only one performance (at the opera's world premiere, 1845), was much longer than the one usually played? Arturo Toscanini, who has a memory like a telephoto camera, could remember having seen some such score. On Tuesday a phone call...
Serious obstacles -- including those of dual unionism and an AFL -- CIO fight over whether any changes should be made in the Wagner Labor Relations Act--loomed on the are of the conference...
...Roosevelt's second principal reason for his plea for good will on the labor front was based entirely on his desire for the success of his progressive measures. Without the backing of the unions, the permanence of the Wagner Act and its prodigy, the N. L. R. B., would be in doubt," he continued...
...gloomy individual who carries a bier. Among the extras are: Lathrop M. Forbush '39, Lester D. Berger 40, Arnold W. Frutkin '40, Alvin W. Shutzer '40, Peter H. Solomon '40, Waldo H. Stewart '40, John A. Waldo '40, Norman W. Getsinger '41, Kingdon W. Swayne '41, Richard M. Wagner '41, and William H. Lowe...
Part of an elaborate program instituted to remedy that fault was a school set up by the corporation, but run by and for the unions. Last week 24 students of labor history, economics, business administration, the Wagner Act, other subjects of joint concern to worker & boss graduated from Pabco's school, bade fair to make labor-relations history...