Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tenure the longest in U.S. history, surpassing the current record of 15 years set by Maryland's Albert C. Ritchie from 1920 through 1934. Smylie had also lost some popularity because of the recent passage of a 3% sales tax, the first such tax in Idaho since the 1930s. And he faced strong opposition from Idaho's well-entrenched conservatives, who resented his lackluster support of Barry Goldwater in 1964 and his leadership of the successful fight to dump Goldwaterite Dean Burch as national committee chairman and install moderate Ray Bliss in his place. Nor did his urging...
...spur the nation, Mao clearly wants to re-create the spirit of Yenan, where he and his followers in the 1930s holed up in caves and nurtured the revolution that was later to overrun the country. In Yenan, intellectuals served as peasants, peasants as workers, workers as soldiers. Mao's great fear is that young Chinese who, in his words, "have never fought a war or seen an imperialist," will fail to inherit the fiery revolutionary zeal that marked his early followers...
...dashboard player without taking his eyes off the road; it plays through four speakers-usually mounted in the front and rear doors-without interference from bumpy roads, tunnels, bridges or commercials. President Johnson has stereotape players in his airplane and most of his cars, favors dance music of the 1930s. Vice President Humphrey has one in his limousine, as does his wife Muriel in her auto. In Hollywood, you just aren't In unless your Rolls rolls to the tune of the tape...
Those Good Old Ways. The heyday of Hines was in the 1930s, when from the throne of a white grand piano he led the band at Chicago's Grand Terrace ballroom, which flourished under the partial ownership of Al Capone and cronies. "I couldn't afford to have stars for the band," says Hines, "so I had to make them." He nurtured dozens of first-rate musicians; Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker used the band as a laboratory for the newly emerging bebop. In 1940, stepping high in snakeskin shoes, a diamond tiepin and purple tie, Hines...
...late 1930s, with the advent of the unmelodic twelve-tone school of Arnold Schoenberg, Ansermet saw darkness. Atonality, he declared, was not music. Drawing on his early background as a mathematics teacher, Ansermet published a complex tome that sought to prove "by mathematical formulas that the strict twelve-tone system is entirely opposed to the laws of hearing...