Word: wagnerism
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...enough to make Richard Wagner turn in his grave. On the great stage of the roofless, littered Cologne Opera House a skinny little doughboy, shrouded in the pretentious livery of Siegfried, sang "Saint Louis Woman . . ." to a buxom, bearded, Brünnhilde. A G.I. strode past, sporting a foot-high Cossack hat of white fur. Romeo, a Matterhorn of meat and muscle, was there, and Juliet, too, her black wig on backwards. One battle-grimed dough-foot had abandoned his bazooka for a slide trombone. Seven pianos were going at once...
...year-old prima donna was a joy to photographers. She twittered with the birds in the municipal zoo, was twittered over by excitable St. Louis socialites who did not know her at all in the old days. In Kiel auditorium, she sang 24 songs (only one from Wagner). On Sunday she took her oldtime seat in the loft of the jampacked Pilgrim Congregational Church. Miss Traubel refused to walk down the aisle with the choir, but in excellent voice soloed, O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee...
...damned bureaucrat professors" and conducts classes under the firm impression that sooner or later one of his students will shy an inkwell at him. Dr. Wanous has good reason to be apprehensive. With his colleague, energetic Dr. William Francis Brown, 33, he lectures on such contentious subjects as the Wagner Act, the Wages and Hours Act, the economic weapons of labor and management, the causes of industrial unrest. His students: management executives and union officials from the Douglas Aircraft Co.'s Long Beach, Calif, plant...
Justice Robert H. Jackson concurred with the majority decision. But in his agreement, he took occasion to write words of cheer for businessmen. Employers, he said in effect, have not been getting their rights to free speech under labor's Magna Carta-the Wagner Act. Said Jackson: "I must admit that in overriding the findings of the Texas court we are applying to Thomas a rule the benefit of which in all its breadth and vigor this court denies to employers in NLRB cases. . . . However, the remedy is not to allow Texas improperly to deny the right of free...
State and Nation. The committee proposed that the Federal Government take a hand in correcting these lacks-but a surprisingly small hand. Rejecting schemes for tax-supported medicine, voluntary insurance, or compulsory health insurance (as proposed in the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill-TIME, Dec. 11 1944), it suggested instead a system of Federal grants-in-aid to the states, for improving local health services. Objects: to build hospitals and health centers, organize health departments where none exist, provide sewage and water-supply systems, milk-pasteurization plants, scholarships and loans to medical and dental students, complete medical care for the needy...