Word: wagner
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Trump Cards for the President were Labor and Farmers who have two of the most powerful lobbies in Washington. Labor fears that the Supreme Court will invalidate the Wagner Labor Relations Law which is now before it, and hopes for still bigger & better favors if the Supreme Court is altered. Hence John L. Lewis, Sidney Hillman and Major George L. Berry all announced to the press that Labor's Non-Partisan League approved the President's plan 100%. William Green quickly approved...
Senate support of the bill was not strengthened by the President's criticism of oldsters, nor by the fact that Senators like Robinson of Arkansas and Wagner of New York, who have been considered for the first vacancies on the Supreme Court, will not be eligible for any of the new posts proposed.* Senator Van Nuys of Indiana, a member of the Judiciary Committee, announced that he would insist on the Justices of the Supreme Court being called to give their views on the bill. Promptly several other members backed...
...York World-Telegram and chairman of the 25 Scripps-Howard chain papers,* declared that the American Newspaper Guild, rising new newshawks' union, was a menace and he would neither recognize nor treat with it. Last month, Mr. Howard's representatives announced that "in the spirit of the Wagner law" they would talk with a Guild committee representing editorial workers on the New York World-Telegram. Last week, after hours and days of wrangling, the New York Guild Committee wrung from the management a statement that the World-Telegram would negotiate in the "hope and expectation" of arriving...
...LIFE OF RICHARD WAGNER, Vol. II: 1848-1860-Ernest Newman-Knopf ($5). Masterly account of the composer's underestimated role in the Revolution of 1849, his chronic professional and domestic wrangling over musical problems, love affairs, debts, odd cures for complicated illnesses. Astute Critic Newman finds more than hearsay behind the story that Wagner's real father was a Jewish actor named Geyer, his mother the illegitimate child of Prince Constantin of Weimar...
When Rigoletto was repeated last week. Soprano Bovy proved that she could sing truly if not more evenly, but she still seemed pathetically unequal to Tibbett. A German opera saved the week from mediocrity, when Wagner's Flying Dutchman was put on for the first time in five years. Save for Hans Clemens, who sang the Steersman in the last production, all the principals were new to the Metropolitan in their parts. Flagstad took the role of Senta for the first time in her career and made it unforgettable. Warmest praise went to Baritone Friedrich...