Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Symphony (Sat. 6 rsop.m., NBC). Toscanini conducting a Mozart, Dvorak and Wagner program...
...Harrison is an aging, temperamental and gabby symphony conductor. He is madly in love with his beautiful young wife (Linda Darnell), but he begins to suspect her, unjustly, of carrying on with his handsome young secretary (Kurt Kreuger). Brooding over his jealousy as he conducts a concert (Rossini, Wagner, Tchaikovsky), he imagines himself solving his domestic triangle in three different ways: 1) by murder, 2) by generosity to the young "lovers," and 3) by suicide...
Labor. Minimum wage of 75? an hour (now 40?); restoration to the Labor Department of all the authority taken away from it by the 80th Congress; repeal of the Taft-Hartley law and a return to the more pro-labor pattern of the Wagner Act; government action to maintain "full employment" with a goal of 64 million employed by 1958; more generous unemployment compensation...
Pressure. In the years after the passage of the Wagner Act, the teamsters' pressure on their enemies never relaxed. Price-cutting dry-cleaning establishments were brought into line. This seemed to end an epidemic of mysterious explosions, with which they had been plagued. Laundries formed an employers' association to police their industry and appointed one of Beck's friends, Bill Short, to run it at a fine fee. Taxicab drivers were organized, after they got tired of being rammed by automobiles with steel rails for bumpers...
Ailing & Acidulous. Utah's Elbert D. Thomas, 65, who votes as labor thinks, would replace Ohio's Robert A. Taft as chairman of the Senate Labor & Public Welfare Committee. New York's ailing Robert F. Wagner, 71, has the seniority for the Banking & Currency chairmanship, and hopes to be well enough to take it. If not, the next in line is South Carolina's nails-hard, conservative Burnet Maybank, 49. Tennessee's querulous, old (79) Kenneth McKellar was on deck for the Appropriations Committee, Maryland's acidulous Millard E. Tydings for Armed Services, Georgia...