Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Wagner's Faust Overture. Conductor: Bruno Walter...
...curb labor as it had not been curbed in years. On the Committee's table were bills to set up a federal mediation board which would replace Labor Secretary Schwellenbach's conciliation service; bills to outlaw the closed shop, to end industrywide bargaining, to amend the Wagner...
...problem is not labor's power. The problem is the elimination of that fear which makes balanced, rational demands by labor and capital impossible today. Strong unions, sure of their acceptance in the society, will continue to do what the Wagner Act says they will do--contribute to the developing maturity of collective bargaining. They will serve as a check to the growing concentration of business ownership, and above all they will add to the democratic quality of industrial life through the injection of worker participation...
...booked into the theater where ex-Vichyman Alfred Cortot had played the piano to mixed cheers and boos (TiME, Jan. 27). When Flagstad walked onstage, the crowd was silent a moment-then broke into applause. To more applause, and tumultuous cheers, she sang some Grieg songs, and excerpts from Wagner in German. Said Flagstad, heading for London: "My conscience is clear...
Little Hendrik was born in Rotterdam in 1882 a few hours after Richard Wagner had finished Parsifal (the events had no bearing on each other, he whimsically explains). After recording this fact the author supplies six successive childhood memories, each followed by a digression in genealogy, i.e., the story of mankind. As achievements in gentle claptrap these sections are all too imitable, as were the sections of Van Loon's previous books which they imitate. Example: "[The ice age] was the period during which the human race went to school, for it was a question of invent or perish...