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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with savage pride in the Finnish civil war. He spent 21 years building a courageous Finnish Army, 3½ months leading it in a death struggle. When such a man must address his troops in defeat, they may expect memorable words. Last week the hardbitten, tired old soldier ad dressed the men who, by his own reckoning, had outfought their foes 13-to-1 but been outnumbered 1-to-50. Said...
...night sessions in out of the way bistros and honky-tonks. This is great jazz--a reproduction so accurate as to make seem pale pink by comparison any of the series previously done by HRS, Victor; or Commodore Record Shop. As a matter of fact, Commodore ran and ad in which it said that this was the "greatest album in the history of jazz" and surpassed by far anything it or anyone else had been able to do. I can't find superlatives super-stuff enough to convey how good this album seems to me and everyone else that...
With the onset of World War II and the promise of a whopping diversion of tourist business to Florida, Mr. Washburn last fall took a full-page ad in the New York Times, offered Hog Island to anyone with a tropical yearning and $150,000 to spare. The ad brought scores of queries, a few prospective buyers, including an Italian from Manhattan who wanted to found a new Roman Empire...
...from home at the age of u and made his pile in the oil fields. Wall Streeters, who know what it is to be spanked for selling strawberries without showing the whole basket, trembled for his hide. Last week SEC, not a connoisseur of Americana, spanked him. A sorry ad appeared in the Wall Street Journal: "... I have been notified by the Securities and Exchange Commission that in publicly making that offer I had violated their rules. My offer therefore is hereby publicly withdrawn until and if I can prepare a regular official offering sheet as required, at which time...
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