Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor Minister Walter Bailey Madeley was helpless. The unrecognized native unions are not subject to anti-strike emergency regulations applicable to white workers in recognized unions. Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts intervened. By decree he forbade native workers to strike, made all labor disputes subject to compulsory arbitration...
Estimating that 24,000 out of Harvard's 80,000 alumni are elready engaged in the present war effort, David W. Bailey '21, Publication Agent, expects that figure to reach 35,000 if the war continues another year. The last Alumni Bulletin lists over 100 new names of Harvard alumni in the armed services, bringing the total...
...good old days people used to know of Mildred Bailey even if they didn't make a point of buying her records. Not a month went by without at least two of her vocals coming out on Vocalion or Brunswick. Now, having produced no records in the past year, less than a dozen the year before, Mildred is fast becoming one of the most unheard and unappreciated artists in the business...
...networks should give Mildred an exclusive fifteen minute sustaining program, preferably with Teddy Wilson's small Cafe Society band. Certainly when a pseudo-jazz program like "Chamber Music of Basin Street" can build up a tremendous following, a little decent jazz ought to get along. The beauty of the Bailey-Wilson combination, especially, is that you needn't be an ardent swing addict to appreciate and enjoy their music...
...Metronome give her a kind word now and then, taking her for granted most of the time. The more csoteric jazz magazines ignore her completely. As a result, the rising generation of jazz lovers misses out almost entirely. Peggy Lees may come and Ramonas may go, but Mildred Bailey remains the best female singer since Bessic Smith. The strange part of the public's ignoring of Mildred is that she resembles in many respects the greatest living male singer, Bing Crosby...