Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee session where Messrs. Nelson, Forrestal and Patterson appeared to plead for a work-or-fight law only three Senators showed up out of 18 on the Committee. And all three announced themselves as against the bill. Even the bill's two Senate sponsors, North Carolina's Bailey and Maine's Brewster, confessed they were about ready to give...
Sirs: Here's an orchid for Rankin, Bilbo, Governor Bailey and "Ole Miss" too. Just passed in review about two hours ago for His Excellency the Governor and his 140 (no kidding) Honorary Colonels...
Leading in points scored for the winners were Bill Lutz, Frank Romano, and George Bailey, who was lost to the V-12 team in the fourth period on personal fouls. The civilian squad was featured by Philips, with ten points, while Keene's eight helped considerably...
...according Mildred the kudos of "the greatest popular songbird in the U.S.," thanks. For describing her voice as "small," her large but not unattractive figure as shapeless, for sending eight, great, productive Bailey years into the limbo of obscurity, shame...
...Mildred Bailey's eight years were anything but obscure to connoisseurs of jazz singing. They were so to the popular musical public in general. Her remarkable voice is very small by traditional vocal standards...