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Strictly by invitation, Pittsburgh's stiffest and shiniest shirts ranked themselves on the Carnegie stage, decked and double-decked with greenery-yallery ferns and flowers. The ceremonies went on the air with the national anthem, thanksgivings for the late Mr. Carnegie, and warblings by a home-grown soprano, who sang The Last Rose of Summer as an encore...
Bandmaster Guy Lombardo, who has long pined for the day when auto horns will sound the first few bars of the anthem of their owners' native States, joyfully announced that a manufacturer had agreed to produce them at $15 apiece...
When Berlin first presented the song to Kate Smith, Manager Collins had the tune set to a martial rhythm, advised Plugger Smith to give it the works. Soon, God Bless America began to go to town, was widely heralded as a new national anthem. Forthwith it was suggested that the song be rendered as a hymn. After Collins had tried it out to a pious beat, he hastily returned to the original arrangement when complaints poured...
...desire has Berlin to see God Bless America become a national anthem. But he is anxious to keep it out of hotspots. To date he hasn't been very successful in this regard. Blatant Harry Richman has used it at Ben Marden's Riviera on the Hudson, many another has crooned it in similar clubs. He has also been unsuccessful in preventing translators from rendering it in alien tongues. A chapter of the Bund attempted unsuccessfully to adopt it as its official tune, but last month in Rochester, Wis. 40,000 U. S.-loving German-Americans celebrated German...
...hour ride through St. Lawrence County's rolling country the long Presidential motorcade pulled up in front of stiffly assembled Army divisions. Eight times the President heard the 21-gun salute followed by ruffles and flourishes; eight times he sat at attention for the national anthem while Old Glory whipped the breeze above regimental colors dipped in salute. With Secretary of War Stimson and Governor Lehman beside him, with General Drum riding in the jump seat, the President looked on at a great show of man power...