Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Ley, Nazi Labor Front leader, cribbed a few words from Karl Marx's and Friedrich Engels' Communist Manifesto, stole a sentence from Richard Wagner's opera Siegfried and made a speech last week. Right in line with the Nazis' new face-Lefting, Dr. Ley cried...
...looked last week as if, excepting the unlikely eventualities of extensive U. S. aid for China or of internal collapse in Japan, China's military dragon might suffer the fate of the dragon Fafner in Wagner's Siegfried-be given a good long time to sing its last sad words, then get it in the neck...
...Roosevelt fund to aid victims of infantile paralysis. Biggest & brightest of all was the party at Washington's Hotel Mayflower, where beaming Eleanor Roosevelt plunged a knife into a big, red, white & blue cake. But just before Mrs. Roosevelt cut into the cake, the President cut into the Wagner health bill...
...great surprise was this substitution of plain bread for the rich cake of the Wagner bill. Last December, when the President first mentioned a hospital-construction plan, he was vigorously supported by the American Medical Association, which had vigorously opposed the Wagner bill. And for many months, Surgeon General Thomas Parran has been conducting a painstaking county-by-county survey of hospital facilities in the 48 States. On his desk last week were blueprints of neat little one-story hospitals, some of wood, others of brick and adobe, each planned to house 100 beds. Estimated cost: $150,000 apiece, including...
...secret to the Manhattan music world that Diva Flagstad was backing a favorite young maestro of her own: U. S.-born Conductor Edwin McArthur, who had been conducting all her performances in Chicago and Los Angeles. Wailed Mme Flagstad: "Since Mr. Leinsdorf is inexperienced in playing Wagner, he watches the music. I see his arms moving, but I can't tell where the music...