Word: wagnerism
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Both the company and the union appealed to the courts. The Wagner Act, said the company, did not stipulate that pensions were subjects for bargaining. The Taft-Hartley Act's non-Communist affidavits, said the union, were unconstitutional...
...mighty roar. Neumann rode on the crowd's shoulders as he tightly clasped the typewritten sheets of his memorandum in one arm and a bouquet of red roses in the other. Slowly the crowd began to melt back into the ruins from which it had come. Loudspeakers blared Wagner's Overture to Tannhäuser...
...frequently voted with the court's "liberal wing"-Brandeis, Cardozo and Stone. New Dealers castigated him for rejecting NRA, but all the other justices rejected it too. He voted for many New Deal measures, including the Wagner Act. His attitude was that if a social revolution was being legislated, it should be legislated in an orderly, constitutional...
Ever since Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera put up its surprise closing notice, ideas on how to save the Met, and how to improve it, had popped up with the frequency of horn cues in a Wagner opera...
Melchior, who makes more money in such semi-things as Hollywood musicals than he does at the Met, volunteered to stage some of the operas he knows best-Wagner's Tristan tmd Isolde and part of the Ring Cycle ("ones with not too big a chorus")-with his fellow stars pitching in "on a cooperative basis." If the operas went over, he would try some others. And if he couldn't produce them in the Met, he would do it in a Broadway theater...