MUSICAL TOUR ALARMS SOLONS; SEE RED BOGEY
Musical Tour Alarms Solons; See Red Bogey Stokowski Is Called a 'Red'; Orate On Symphony WASHINGTON, D. C.—Last year Leopold Stokowski, eminent former conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony...
...also denounces the famed musician...
...Taber (R, N.Y...
...But that was until congress got hold of it...
...He is what is popularly known among newspapermen and politicians as a nuisance...
...The committee threatened to cite him for contempt...
...Story of Mr...
...He reads sentences here and there from the articles, falling to indicate if they are quotations, when they were written or what they were about...
...one o.' the Republican leaders, started discussion going...
...If anything is going to cost anybody a red cent, Taber is against it...
...Cox bounces up again to cry, "At least let's give him a hand...
...Taber is one of the hardest-boiled economy advocates...
...Dies And a Communist WASHINGTON, D. C—The Dies committee investigating un-American activities made the headlines last week by arresting James H. DoLsen of Pittsburgh as a "dangerous Communist" and rushing him to Washington by airplane for questioning...
...he demanded to know "Brahms...
...The subject came up for discussion during debate on the appropriation for the NYA...
...N. Y.) rises to agree with Taber...
...What he wants to talk about is David J. Saposs, head of the NLRB's economic division...
...It also says Mrs...
...For a generation he has been trying lo get his screeds printed...
...Saposs once taught at a place called Brookwood, a labor college that had no connection with the Communist party...
...He bangs his hands together lustily...
...The gavel bangs and Smith's time is up...
...Secretary of Interior Ickes...
...This is a perfect example of trying to make a whale out of a sardine," • ? PASS THIS PAPER ON It Will Win New Readers...
...The Red Network says Stowkowski is a subversive character therefore the NYA should have no funds...
...Now Comes Smith Up to public address system strides Rep...
...Bach...
...Aliens...
...The Red Network says so...
...Orate On Symphony WASHINGTON, D. C.—Last year Leopold Stokowski, eminent former conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony orchestra, proposed to give 100 you American musicians a chance...
...It had many things to commend it and, from the government's point of view, there was little against the project...
...The expenses of the tour would be paid by individuals who would book passage on the same boat...
...The fact that this venture is not costing the government anything makes him suspicious and prompts him to refuse any funds to the NYA...
...It was arranged with the National Youth administration that it would conduct the auditions at which the young musicians would be chosen...
...and many another notable and worthwhile perse—, are suversive...
...Rep...
...What does this man's orchestra play...
...He has material straight from the Dies committee to show that Saposs is a subversive character...
...Smith doesn't know anything about Stowkowski...
...He asks for more time which is refused...
...Gets Warm Greeting The proposal met with a great deal of enthusiasm...
...Gene Cox (D...
...Committee agents who raided Dol-sen's room found a Communist membership card bearing the name of "Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...head of the special house committee investigating the National Labor Relations board...
...Howard Smith (D, Va...
...He never made any effort to conceal the fact...
...In the second place, who is paying for this thing...
...Brookfield is the name of a sausage...
...If the committee had spent 3 cents on a letter inviting Dolsen to appear lie would have responded with a willingness that would have made gullible Martin Dies' heed swim...
...In the first place, Taber declaimed, this man Stokowski is a Communist...
...Beethoven...
...Furthermore, declaims Smith, Saposs once wrote some articles...
...Commenting on Dolsen's spectacular arrest, the Pittsburgh "Press," a very conservative paper, said: "Dolsen has been known for years as a Communist...
...Marcantonio's sarcasm is appreciated by only a few...
...Dolsen said he knew Roosevelt was not a Communist and that it was a practice of the "Reds" to hide their identity under assumed names...
...The whole proceeding strikes us as silly and a waste of taxpayers' money...
...He refused to admit that he had taken the name of the president or to indicate to whom the card belonged...
...Marcantonio (Amer.-Labor...
...Roos-evelt...
...For the NYA there was no cost involved...
...He said he would arrange to train these 100 young people as a symphony orchestra and take them on a tour to South America...
...Once, Smith Informs the house, Saposs was the head of Brookfield college, a Communist organization...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 14
