Word: weber
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Schafer needed a good quotation. That very day Mrs. Anna Weber, of Queens, was getting a judgment against him for $2,500 she said she had lent him and which he had never repaid. Next day a line of ladies began to march into the Attorney General's office with circumstantial stories of how "the money comes...
...Greek, a Hungarian, an Englishwoman, two Swedes, several Americans - and one Italian - sang an Italian opera in Manhattan one night last week. The assorted nationalities sang to Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who wore, as usual, a hair ribbon; to Thomas J. Watson of International Business Machines; to Orlando F. Weber, onetime head of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp.; to those sterling spinsters of Manhattan and Newport, R. I., the Misses Maude and Edith Wetmore; to yards of silk and satin; to hothouses of orchids, gardenias and camellias; to bushels of diamonds, emeralds and pearls. They also sang to a few hundred plebeian...
Arthur W. Balley 2L, New York, N. Y.; Jacob W. Rosenthal 2L, New York, N. Y.; James F. Stern 2L, Milwankee, WisHerbert A. Waterman 1L, San Francisco, Calif.; and Gordon M. Weber 1L, Burlingame, Calif...
...Table Press, 1934; $2): "The only people of this century who seem to have a comparable earnestness [to 16th-Century Reformers Luther, Calvin, Knox] are such men as Lenin, Mussolini and Hitler.*... I am inclined to agree with [British Historian Richard Henry] Tawney and [the late German Economist Max] Weber that capitalism is a rather natural outgrowth of Protestantism; arid I would go farther in saying that socialism, communism and fascism are in turn rather natural developments from capitalism. Spiritually, they are all much alike. Capitalism . . . today commands a material type of religious fervor ... as unreasonable, dogmatic, and theoretical...
...concert repertoire. Laziness, too, may account for the way conductors tend to neglect many equally good, but less known works. It takes time, energy and patience to train as orchestra in a new piece, which may be the reason why Barbirolli continues to ride his hobbyhorses of Weber overtures when he might well be exploring the overtures of Gluck and Handel, and why such a conscientious musician as Koussevitzky will in concert after concert stick to Sibelins's first two symphonics, the weakest of them all, and let the greatest, the Sixth and Seventh, gather dust on a shelf...