Word: wagnerism
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...Wagnerian short rations would be more endurable if, as happened during World War I, the public developed an antipathy to German music. Although Richard Wagner is the great Nazi musical and ideological hero, a survey in Variety last week showed that there is no U.S. reaction whatever against German music. Even Canada can take it. Variety reported that Tenor Melchior, in deference to supposed Canadian tastes, lately omitted German numbers from a recital in Montreal. His audience shouted for German encores, got them...
Name of a new song by Bert Stevens and Larry Wagner: Whistler's Mother-in-Law. Name of a recent Hollywood composition: The Girl With the Popular Front...
Typical of the use to which the Nazis have put radio transmitters of occupied countries is their reorganization of French stations. Radio Luxemburg, popular in England before the war because of its light music, is now heavy with Wagner and lesser Teutonic gutturals, relieved occasionally by newscasts to Britain. Allouis (Radio-Paris) not only relays news in German for Nazi troops in France, but also spoonfeeds propaganda to the Spaniards...
...reaching decision this spring the Supreme Court upheld the Constitutionality of the: 1. Wagner Labor Relations...
...America when he was appointed to the Court in 1925. Attacked as a corporation lawyer, he turned out to be a solid liberal who was soon writing dissents with Holmes and Brandeis. He dissented when the AAA was declared un constitutional, supported the New Deal on TVA and the Wagner Act. No New Dealer, he believed the Court must take notice of social and economic change...