Word: appletons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grey-Hairs. Willkie himself hedged not at all to win isolationist support. In Appleton, he said that any Republican who had the narrow nationalist support of the Chicago Tribune would go down to defeat. In Green Bay, he declared "I am in complete disagreement with the President's Vichy policy, his Darlan policy, and his dealings with the Fascist forces of Italy." But he forthrightly defended his own international sympathies, his early espousal of Lend-Lease ("I never will be prouder of anything in my life...
Copland will deliver five public lectures on modern music under the Horatio Appleton Lamb Fund, established in 1928 to bring eminent musicians to Harvard. Copland has been a noted composer since 1924, chiefly of symphonies, concertos, and chamber music. He has written scores for several motion pictures, including "Of Mice and Men," "Our Town," and "North Star." He is president of the American Composers Alliance, director of the International Society for Contemporary Music, director of the League of Composers, and director of the American Music Center...
Malta Epic (Appleton-Century; $3), Author Hay's first book about World War II, may or may not be a bestseller. But it is the most crackling and inclusive of several recent books about "the most bombed spot on earth."* The concussive quality of Author Hay's Malta narrative is measureable in part by three Malta facts...
...From Allan Nevins' Letters and Journal of Brand Whitlock (Appleton-Century...
...days later, having issued this challenge to statesmanship, Representative Luce keynoted a Republican convention at Appleton, Wis. Her speech was a model of partisan politics...