Word: nathan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dublin-born, copper-bearded essayist and critic, famed for his caustic comments on modern manners & morals during the Greenwich Village literary renaissance of the 19203, once known as the most striking-looking figure of Manhattan's writing set; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. With George Jean Nathan, James Branch Cabell, Eugene O'Neill, he founded in 1932 the "literary newspaper" The American Spectator, for three years published the works of the nation's best writers, suddenly quit when he and his fellow editors "tired...
Last week, in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, slim, courtly Jacques Thibaud, looking much younger than his 66 years, made his first U.S. appearance in 15 years. In the audience were Violinists Fritz Kreisler, Mischa Elman and Nathan Milstein. Concertgoers used to the opulent Russian-style fiddling of Heifetz and Milstein had to pay sharp attention to Thibaud's delicate and smaller tone, but the effort was worth it. Thibaud played the violin solo in Lalo's melodious, tricky-rhythmed Symphonie Espagnole with the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. He had to come on stage six times to take bows...
...bosses of Big Labor had evidently been studying the signs. They had read the election returns and had seen what happened to John L. Lewis. They had sent up a trial balloon (the Nathan report) for higher wages without higher prices, and seen it riddled with buckshot by industry's sharpshooters...
...Record. The Nathan report failed to distinguish between what might be and what would be. He said wages could be raised without raising prices. The record was against him. Prices broke through Government controls last year. Now controls have been removed. Management, interpreting facts in its own way and using its own judgment, will certainly raise prices if it has to raise wages. Even as the C.I.O. got ready to swing the Nathan club, General Motors' President C. E. Wilson stated flatly that price rises would follow wage rises as night follows day. Whether the policy was stupid...
...area has its own history of brutality and violence. Near the foot of 46th Street, Nathan Hale was executed in 1776. In more recent years there have been less heroic deaths: the Veronica Gedeon murder, the Titterton and Lonergan killings...