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...Republican Convention opened with the most popular of the new songs currently reflecting American surge of patriotism, W.P.A.-written: 1. Ballad for Americans. 2. God Bless America. 3. I Am an American. 4. Our Side of the Ocean. 5. And They Lynched Him on a Tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL AFFAIRS,FOREIGN NEWS,THE THEATRE OF WAR,BUSINESS & FINANCE,PERSONALITIES IN THE NEWS,SCIENCE AND MEDICINE,L: U. S. FOREIGN RELATIONS | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...Whitehouse logic. Their theme song on camp route marches was There'll Always Be An England-and it arose from both hearts and lips. They are also genuinely fond of the U. S.-and after the destroyer deal I heard more than one rendition of God Bless America. To infer that these sentiments are incompatible is nonsense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 14, 1940 | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...introduced by Mr. Buck as "the nearest thing to a genius we have in this country," walked to the centre of the stage. As Irving Berlin began singing, the audience rose, joined in the music by the hundreds, then the thousands, until 15,000 voices were swelling God Bless America, an ASCAP song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gene Buck Goes to Town | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

After the Democratic National Convention adjourned in Chicago last summer, many a hotel corridor resounded with the tune of God Bless America, but the words were different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Campaign Songs | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...literature begins on courthouse steps, in general stores where men chaw, whittle and tell tales. With a fond ear for briarhopper speech the Tennessee Writers' Project (WPA) gathered 25 well-chawed, well-whittled anecdotes from the Great Smokies to the levees in God Bless the Devil-(University of North Carolina Press; $2). Their themes are lady-killing fiddlers, horse races, knife duels, preachers, hunting dogs, log-cabin adultery, possums, milk snakes, the witch of Red River who chased brave Andy Jackson back to Nashville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tellers of Tales | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

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