Word: wagnerism
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...been achieved. Taxes, far from easing, were made tougher by an excess-profits tax and likely to grow more so. Government spending was multiplied; the 76th Congress appropriated more than $17 billions. Interest rates on capital continued to fall. The National Labor Relations Board underwent a personnel shakeup, but Wagner Act modification was less likely than ever. Government regulation in general, previously little more than a list of "Don'ts," began to turn into positive control. Every well-editorialized reason why Business should hold back was more conspicuous than ever...
...Composer Richard Wagner's less important works last week stirred politico-patriotic debate in Britain. The work in question was his saucy Granddaughter Friedelind, 22, who has had as interesting a history as any of his operas...
...years before the No. 1 Nazi became Chancellor, Music Lover Adolf Hitler first met the family of his favorite composer. Widow Cosima would have none of him, but Hitler struck up a friendship with English-born Daughter-in-Law Winifred Wagner. Aged five at this time was Granddaughter Friedelind. She was dandled on Herr Hitler's knee while rumor that he was going to marry her mother rose but finally ebbed. When about the age of a U. S. debutante, Friedelind, by her own account, used to lunch now & then with the Führer and chirp all sorts...
...Miss Wagner soon produced a series of gossipy articles for British Allied Newspapers Ltd. She wrote that Hitler considers Mussolini "the only other great man'' and that in her opinion II Duce "felt like a nursemaid taking care of a victorious child" during some of his meetings with the Führer. Hitler, riding through Berlin beside Mussolini, according to Miss Wagner, "gave the general impression of a fussy spinster seated beside the first real man who had come...
Then, having rescued Miss Wagner from Switzerland, the British arrested her last summer. In her luggage police found photographs of her and Hitler together and that clinched it. She was interned as an enemy alien. To her defense last week went eloquent Beverley Baxter...