Word: bands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...behalf of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation, I am calling your attention to the following statement contained on page 10 of your issue of February 13, 1928, to wit:-"The day after Senator Johnson spoke in the Senate, a band of Negroes, hired by the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company, swaggered down a road near Horning, Pa., and fired revolver volleys into the windows of a school filled with strikers' children. One of the strikebreakers, arrested, said he had been paid $25 by the coal company to shoot up strikers in their barracks. This was reported as a typical incident...
...GREAT AMERICAN BAND WAGON -Charles Merz - John Day ($3). Everybody come quick, jump aboard, see a lotta things you never saw before, forget you're a shoe clerk, play cowboy an' injun, make yourself a hero, have secret power -everybody's doing it, follow the crowd, you can't go wrong...
...Italian Army, declaring at a Fascist rally in Rome: "I am sure the Fascist legions fully deserve this honor. . . . They must become our shock troops-daggers between teeth, grenades in hand and supreme contempt of danger at heart." Those who thought this sounded like the incorporation of a band of autonomous brigands in the Italian army were not reassured when Il Duce concluded...
Then in 1821 across the Sabine River came mild-mannered Stephen F. Austin of Missouri and his band of settlers "to redeem Texas from its wilderness state by means of the plow alone." Paradoxically, these people became loyal citizens of the Mexican Republic and ousted rebels from the land. But when Santa Anna, the Mexican general of the dark and cruel eyes, turned his guns on the Alamo (Roman Catholic mission at San Antonio), a different story began. Colonel Travis, Davy Crockett and 180 Texans refused for eleven days to be ousted from the Alamo...
Markels and his band are familiar figures at all the leading social functions in New York and acknowledged to be unequalled in the quality of their dance music...