Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hopes to amend the Wagner Act in order to clip NLRB's powers (TIME, July 25). The position taken by A. F. of L. this week indicates that it wants nothing less than an amendment to derive C. I. O. of a place on NLRB ballots. Said A. F. of L.'s practical editorialist: "Surely this [C. I. O. recognition] is . . . union development under Government patronage. Progressive legislation and practical democracy depend upon a united labor movement. Whatever groups or agencies give aid to insurgency within our movement defeat these purposes...
...Dear Alben" could not be more faithful, but he is not nimble. Almost his first act as Majority Leader was to let New York's Wagner introduce the time-wasting anti-lynching bill, abhorrent to Southerners. When he was invited to speak to Washington's gay Alfalfa Club (dining) he asked Pat Harrison how long he should talk. An old hand, Pat Harrison said: "Well . . . about an hour and a half." Alben Barkley suspected nothing until, after an hour, the Alfalfans applauded when he said, "And in conclusion. . . ." As befits his plodding nature his favorite song is Wagon...
Neither Mr. Tydings nor any other Senator was specifically listed. From the League's Executive Vice President Eli Oliver, however, correspondents dragged enough to indicate that such friendly gentlemen as New York's Wagner will rate A, California's McAdoo with the Bs (although Franklin Roosevelt last week graded him A), George of Georgia and Clark of Missouri in the outer...
...rules forbade kissing at the church altar between bride and bridegroom; the throwing of confetti or rice (an ancient fertility symbol) at the church door. Banned was secular and operatic music such as the Wagner and Mendelssohn wedding marches, Oh, Promise Me, At Dawning etc. Instead, Dr. Piepkorn recommended Bach and a number of lesser church composers. And he directed that wedding rehearsals be brief, dignified non-conversational. Apparently shocked at newspaper accounts of the casual gaiety of the rehearsal of the John Roosevelt-Anne Clark wedding last month, Dr. Piepkorn said: "They must have had a merry time...
Last month Station WQXR invited its listeners to submit lists of compositions they would like to hear, designated this month as "request month." Three hundred-odd replies contained 3,286 requests for individual compositions. WQXR's request poll found Beethoven leading, with Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Brahms, Mozart and Bach following in the order named...