Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That had been proved countless times in previous congressional hearings. The Pujo investigation (1913) paved the way for the Federal Reserve Act. The Pecora investigation of Wall Street produced the Securities Exchange Act; the Black investigation of the utility lobby led to the Lobbying...
Neatly Mimeographed handouts disclosed that the delegates had adopted a platform which 1) blamed Wall Street and bipartisan "atomic diplomacy" for war hysteria; 2) called the Soviet Union "the strongest bulwark for peace." As predicted, the platform came out as the prototype of the Wallace Progressive Party platform. There was only one deviation. Henry Wallace thought "progressive capitalism" could be saved; the Communists believed that any kind of capitalism was a flop, not worth salvaging...
...those who did go were mothers or wives of workers who had not called or come right home. These women waited patiently across the street from the plant, every now & then crossing over to see whether any new names had been added to the casualty list posted on the wall...
...Roman. They seem powerless and wise, but not with earthly knowledge. Giuliano seems to be "held upright by the magic of the Madonna at whom he is looking." The Virgin, with the Child at her breast, sits at the center of the chapel's end wall. She is the focal point around which Michelangelo's half-classical and half-Christian little universe is clustered...
...Karajan had the help of two crack stage directors, Hans Caspar Nehar and Oskar Fritz Schuh, who had studied under Reinhardt in Berlin. They gave the production two notable Reinhardt touches. After Eurydice's funeral, the mountain wall which towers up behind the stage came alive with song; a chorus of 65 demons had been strung along its side. In the following scene, in which Orpheus arrives in Elysium, the theater's canvas roof was rolled back, revealing a starlit summer...