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...course, it will be better with music," broke in Author Cohan as Singer Bloom swung into the chorus...
...President Hoover, no musician, took the sheet and glanced over it, Congressman Bloom hurried on to explain that he was not trying to "plug" the song by White House publicity because "Father of the Land We Love" was not to be sold commercially but was to be distributed free throughout the land by the Federal Commission for 1932 singing. However, after leaving the President's office, Mr. Bloom stopped in the White House press room, stepped up beside a bust of George Washington, and began to sing the first verse...
...last week Congressman Bloom was more concerned about an old London street song called ''The World's Turned Upside Down" than he was about Composer Cohan's "Father of the Land We Love." When Lord Cornwallis' troops surrendered to Washington's Continental Army at Yorktown, Va., Oct. 19, 1781, the British bandmaster picked that tune for the unhappy march. Next October as a prelude to the Washington bicentennial, a pageant at Yorktown will re-enact the scene that ended the Revolution. President Hoover will speak. Last month the sponsors of this local celebration...
...Bloom: The surrender scene was most dignified, most pleasant, most courteous in every respect. To run a pageant without it would be like having a motion picture without an ending...
...Bloom: Nobody need go further than the Capitol to find an authentic painting of the surrender in which just 37 persons appeared and only three of them were British.† All the British soldiers had laid down their arms and passed from the picture before the actual surrender occurred. . . . General Cornwallis, being indisposed, asked his subordinate General Charles O'Hara to present the sword, denoting defeat. General Washington designated General Benjamin Lincoln to accept it. I believe Washington did not even allow his men to cheer...