Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work of an artist can be considered separately from his polities. That question has been answered rather consistently by free societies in the past. The western world has taken into its culture the works of many artists whose politics were at least as vicious as those of Gieseking--Richard Wagner and Ezra Pound, to name two. If Gieseking has not been allowed to play for American audiences for political reasons, then the logical absurdity reasons, then the logical absurdity would be to ban the work of Wagner and Pound and all the other artists who also rejected free society...
...shortcomings were: a prepaid medical-insurance program; federal aid to schools; the Truman civil-rights program. He also asked for universal military training, broadening of social security, extension of reciprocal trade treaties for three years. He wanted repeal of the Taft-Hartley law and re-enactment of the Wagner Act with some "improvements" such as a ban on jurisdictional strikes. Then he called for new taxes to raise $4 billion in additional revenues and five days later sent along a 1,400-page budget to explain it. He no longer advocated, as he had last year, restoring the wartime excess...
...Truman's list of objectives is broad; it fully represents the kind of government that the country's voters have approved in every major election since 1932. Truman wants $4 billion more in taxes (principally from corporations); he wants the Taft-Hartley Law repealed, and a revised Wagner Act put in its place. He asked again for limited economic controls; proposals that have been futilely batted around in Congress for well over a year. And the President wants plenty of legislation in other domestic fields--Social Security, conservation and resource development, health, education, civil rights, and housing...
Originally, Ebe was to have come to the U.S. in 1940 (she had a Met contract), but couldn't leave Italy after the war broke out. She likes Italian opera best, has the power and range, but "not the temperament" to sing Wagner. Says she: "It is dangerous for an Italian to attempt Wagner. I do not feel heroic...
...most pressing and controversial items which will come before the 81st Congress is public housing. A serious problem long before the War, it remained unsolved in the last session when the Taft-Ellender-Wagner Bill failed to win approval. It is understood that two housing bills will be given to the President this week to insure prompt attention in the next session...