Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prove to be of inferior workmanship, his statement was accurate and supported by cogent illustrations from recent history. The NRA was the most distressing example of Mr. Roosevelt's leap-before-you-look policy, and accounted for two years of confusion and wasted time in the national economy. The Wagner Act and the Social Security Act, also, are poorly-drafted laws which must be done over if they are to be made workable. But remodeling takes time--and it would have been much more efficient to take a little longer and do a thorough job in the first place. This...
...Richard Wagner can hardly be called a light composer, and Gustav Mahler is certainly about as weighty a symphonist as it is possible to find. The combination of the works of these two men into this week's concerts by the Boston Symphony is therefore somewhat ever-powering...
...unusual group of artists have recently formed an organization called the Wagnerian Singers and are at present engaged in touring the country. They will come to Symphony Hall on Sunday afternoon with a program containing six Wagner selections and numbers by Mozart, Strauss, Weber, Gounod, and Offenbach. Richard Hageman is the conductor of the group which includes the wellknown basso, Alexander Kipnis...
...last week ordered an election by crafts, an A. F. of L. victory. In several other cases the Board has ordered plantwide elections, which, in effect, deprive the craft unionists of their right to select their own bargaining representatives. And A. F. of L. would like to see the Wagner Act amended to read like the Railway Labor Act, which provides for bargaining by craft or class of employes...
...legal adviser, Milwaukee's Joseph A. Padway, declared that A. F. of L. was willing to await the outcome of the pending Allis-Chalmers test case to see whether or not the Wagner Act was to be "circumvented, perverted and turned into an instrument of propaganda for the C. I. O. "But if the decision was against craft unionism and unless the law was "speedily" amended, he warned, then there would be only one thing left to do: repeal...