Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shells for this afternoon's race are very evenly matched but the dope around the boathouse is that Rowe will take the race with Wagner, Dean and Comstock close behind him. Comstock who won last year by outrowing the famed Spike Chaco is a dark horso according to Harvey Love...
...Senator Wagner of New York came to discuss the prospect of Palestine being closed to outcast Jews as a homeland. President Roosevelt promised to high-pressure England. Worrying Senator Wagner also was the sudden strength of Republican John Lord O'Brian's campaign against him for reelection. He sought and received the full-blast backing of the New Deal publicity machine...
...mayor of Philadelphia. Now he is running for the U. S. Senate, sole candidate of a "Pathfinder Party," excoriating the Wagner Act and the C. I. O. Without party organization, without campaign funds, he motors 200 miles a day in a sound-truck fashioned like a railroad locomotive. In it he and four friends (two of them sound engineers), carrying their lunches, draw up on hilltops overlooking towns, turn on a magnavox contraption powered by compressed air, and while the populace marvels, Candidate Naugle hurls his thundering political imprecations for miles across the Pennsylvania wilderness...
...Oyly Carte, and evoke the artistic life of Victorian London. To garnish his text, Allvine has cribbed all the celebrated remarks of the day, making his chatter sound at times like a page from Bartlett's Quotations: Bernard Shaw pipes up with ''Some day Wagner will rank with Shakespeare and Shaw," Queen Victoria freezes her guests with "We are not amused," Whistler snubs Wilde with "You will, Oscar, you will." A bright, attractive Gilbert & Sullivan crazy quilt, Knights of Song fails to be anything more because it does not treat its subjects as they invariably treated theirs...
Today at high noon by the chronometer, the Vagabond will cruise to Robinson Hall to hear Professor Martin Wagner, of the Department of Regional Planning, lecture (without slides) on the derivation of the principal visual elements of modern architecture from the changed conditions of living characteristc of the twentieth century. Bolstered by this new knowledge, Vag, is sure that he will be able to steer a better architectural course around these new building-islands which are springing up in these University waters...