Word: brass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without Pay. Worth insisted that he had done the whole job himself, without pay and without the knowledge of the Navy's top brass. But he had gotten some help from Planemaker Glenn Martin and "a great deal of information" from Commander Thomas D. Davies, who piloted the Navy's Truculent Turtle in its record-breaking flight from Australia to Ohio...
...orderly, "peaceable" demonstration, protesting the appearance of Communist-tuned Singer Paul Robeson at a picnic ground outside of Peekskill, N. Y. True, the veterans of Westchester County had brought along enough brass bands to drown out a full opera company and enough pickets to keep any traffic from getting through. But there was to be no rough stuff, the leaders promised. Then the veterans, 500 strong, started down the road leading to the picnic grove itself...
...Mesta's first evening in Luxembourg, a torchlight procession, including a brass band, appeared beneath the legation's windows. The band played Anchors Aweigh and the crowd sang a greeting to Madame la ministre. The bandleader made a speech, which was followed by the Star-Spangled Banner. The demonstrators marched off to Marching Through Georgia. Said Minister Mesta, looking after them from her front porch: "That was a real sweet thing for them...
...bursts-now from the front of the house, now from the side, now from the back. Glass smashed and tinkled, neighborhood women screamed, bullets hummed and a reckless crowd of 10,000 people began jamming into the street. New police reinforcements arrived, among them the force's top brass. Fire trucks rumbled into the street and turned huge searchlights on Craig's bullet-riddled fortress...
...young (27) editor of the Memphis Press, Leech wrote a fiery editorial ("The Shame of It All") blasting Boss Crump's political machine, and accusing local judges of whitewashing Crump election frauds. Sentenced to ten days for contempt of court, Leech was escorted to jail by a brass band. Half an hour later, he was pounding out a story on a typewriter in his cell-first of a ten-day series called "Jailed." Admirers sent Leech a well-stocked refrigerator, fresh linen, flowers and cigars, and a faithful reader brought her daughter to recite the Declaration of Independence...