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...topdog of U. S. Labor is the superior favor enjoyed by his enemy with the present President of the U. S. In spite of a long telegram which Mr. Green sent to Hyde Park outlining the A. F. of L.'s objections to the reappointment of Donald Wakefield Smith to the National Labor Relations Board, the President promptly did as he was requested not to do. Mr. Green was able to announce, however, that the President agreed with him in principle that the Wagner Act should be amended by the next Congress, without endorsing...
Research Fellowships to Stefan A. Riesenfeld, of Palo Alto, Calif., LL.B. University of California '37, a candidate for S.J.D. Harvard this June; Loring P. Jordan, Jr. 3L, of Wakefield, Mass., A.B. Dartmouth '35; Seymour J. Rubin., of Chicago Ill., A.B. University of Michigan '35, a candidate for LL.B. Harvard this June; Maxwell S. Isenbergh 3L, of Peekskill, N. Y., A., Cornell '34; Arthur H. Robertson, of London, England, B.C.L. Oxford '37 a candidate for LL.M. Harvard this June; Melvin Cohen, of Chicago, Il., a candidate for J.D. this June at the University of Chicago; Bertha H. Putnam, formerly Professor...
Concerning Charles Wakefield Cadman's Dark Dancers of the Mardi Gras, TIME, Dec. 13, I have a bit of additional information...
...kind. Also I don't want anyone to think I have any illusions that Dark Dancers is great music. . . . It's just a pleasant score. . . ." Not every composer is able or willing to give such an accurate estimate of his abilities. Though grey-haired, exuberant Charles Wakefield Cadman has been lately somewhat neglected by sophisticated music lovers in favor of younger and more sensational composers, he remains one of the very few highbrow U. S. musical figures whose names are known to the U. S. man in the street. Last week his five-year-old suite, Dark Dancers...
When veteran Conductor Walter Damrosch once asked a schoolchild who Charles Wakefield Cadman was, the child answered: "He's a great American Indian." Prior to 1915 Cadman spent some time among the Osages and Omahas, recording their music, lecturing on it, deriving themes from it. Two decades ago he turned from such ventures to the writing of opera, produced Shanewis, first U. S. opera to survive two seasons in the repertory of the Metropolitan Opera House, and A Witch of Salem, given by the Chicago Civic Opera Company. Then he turned to orchestral pieces and chamber music. An indefatigable...