Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was one great difference between 1948's decline and the commodity slide of 1920. This time the farmers had a cushion of cash to fall back on. Their banks were bulging with savings. Said Karl Wagner, an Iowa hog-raiser: "Very few of us farmers are out on a limb. We've got bonds stuck away for occasions like this. I'm staying in business...
...everything will be business, Tobias Wagner '26, publicity chairman said, as Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday will be set aside for the Harvard-Penn baseball tilt, "informal games," and tennis and golf at nearby country clubs...
...going out of our way to make this year's gathering one of the most interesting, most entertaining, and most memorable ever to take place," Wagner stated. "Our program will not only include good fun, as usual, but also the intellectual aspects befitting the dignity of the University...
...success of voluntary medical prepayment plans, Larsen asserted, is an adequate answer to advocates of compulsory Government health insurance measures like the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill. He also tossed a few barbed statistics at the Federal Government: only 300,000 of the 2,000,000 federal employees now participate in Blue Cross plans "because of the difficulties of handling subscription payments without the cooperation of the employer. ... In this important instance the much-maligned American businessman is way ahead of a federal Administration which has preached medical protection for the low-income wage-earner for the past 15 years...
...Eternal Return (Paulve; Discina). The medieval bards sang of Tristan and Iseult as huge, cloudy symbols of high romance; later storytellers (Swinburne, Wagner, Tennyson, E. A. Robinson et al.) further enriched (or corrupted) the tale with new ideas and idioms. Now the French poet-moviemaker, Jean Cocteau, has handsomely reset the legend in modern dress. His title, The Eternal Return, is the term Nietzsche gave to the mournfully romantic doctrine of endless historical repetition. The Nietzschean note tolls through the film like a sunken bell...