Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...present policy was chiefly responsible for recent legislation reorganizing and jacking up the Federal Power Commission. All power witnesses before it are suspected at the outset and the inquisitorial questions of such Senators as Nebraska's Howell, Iowa's Brookhart, Washington's Dill, Montana's Wheeler, New York's Wagner and Kentucky's Barkley seem designed to elicit testimony to discredit the present system of utility regulation. Despite the fact that service with a power company might well constitute good training for a power regulator, no such connection ever seems too small or old or indirect for the Couzens committee...
...damn good company! They wouldn't have Sheridan, or Goldsmith, and it's taken people a pretty long time to swallow Stravinsky. It was a good while before they'd receive Debussy. And God knows Bizet died in a garret! . . . And, dear Lord, what they wrote of Wagner! Dewey ?they killed him: . . . After all, you must not forget he said, 'You can fire when ready, Gridley.? Dewey looked into George Creel's eyes, and he said: 'The footprints of the American people are upon my heart.' Oh, I'm in damn good company! ... I don't like...
...rest of last week was spent by M. Le Senateur Louis Barthou, 68, one-time Prime Minister (1913), author of The Prodigious Lover, a biography of Richard Wagner, in discovering that he could not form a cabinet...
...sings Siegfried at Bayreuth and Manhattan's Metropolitan, proves an excellent phonograph artist. Contralto Maria Olszewska and Soprano Frida Leider, expert members of the Chicago Civic Opera, sing Erda and Briinnhilde. Die Meistersinger, the aria Wahn! Wahn! (Victor, $2)- As Cobbler Hans Sachs, Baritone Friedrich Schorr advances Wagner's famed soliloquy on the comedy of human ways. Symphonic...
...studio WJZ over the New Amsterdam Theatre at Times Square. It was reported in shrieking detail in the American each morning. Typical of Hearst smartness and enterprise was the casting of characters for the trial. Presiding judge was no obscure radio performer, but U. S. Senator Robert Ferdinand Wagner, good friend of Publisher Hearst and a onetime supreme court justice in New York State. Prosecutor was Ferdinand Pecora, onetime chief assistant district attorney in Manhattan, a name well known to readers of Manhattan crime news. Chief counsel for defense was George Gordon Battle, noted Manhattan lawyer, attorney...