Word: alamo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dear Umphrey," the letter ran, "What has been done in the Alamo matter? Will you write me, please. What developments in the other situation? Willkie is going to be the man, in my opinion, and I can promise you good cooperation from that quarter if you think it would be helpful." It was typewritten on White House stationery, dated August 17, 1943, and signed "Harry Hopkins" in ink. Sparks said it meant that Hopkins wanted Willkie to get the Republican Presidential nomination...
...classic razzmatazz style- heavy chording in the bass and light finagling in the treble-of which he is still in perfect possession. He worked in a motley of joints, including Chinatown's Chatham Club. Around 1916 Jimmy got together a five-piece Dixieland combination for the Club Alamo in Har lem. Their output is best described by their leader: '"When we played a fox trot in dem days, we had to put up a sign and say 'Fox Trot' so a guy could know what to expect. . . . Playin' pianner, I used to have a racin...
...Alamo, Jimmy met Eddie Jack son, a gentle, sentimental, onetime singing waiter. And one day a cute little singer named Jeanne Olson dropped in by mistake (she was booked at the Ritz around the corner). Durante married...
...soaked up Texas history (Bonham was named for a heroic messenger of the Alamo); he also followed contemporary politics. His hero, and the hero of many another Texan at the turn of the century, was Joseph Weldon Bailey, a towering, rugged character, a mighty orator, a political reformer who rose to be Democratic leader in Congress, then graduated to the Senate. Sam Rayburn likes to recall the day when, as a ten-year-old boy, he got permission to saddle up his father's mare and ride twelve miles to town to peep breathlessly through a flap...
Throughout Australia the Dutch are revered, especially by the Americans. The opinion is unanimous that the Dutchmen of Java fought as bravely as the Spartans at Thermopylae or the Texans in the Alamo. "I'll fight the man who says anything against the Dutch," drawls a fierce little towheaded Kentucky mountaineer who piloted a big bomber during the Battle of Java...