Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brass Bands & Security
ALSO OMITTED FROM YOUR ACCOUNT WAS THE COMPLETE STATEMENT I MADE ABOUT BRASS BANDS ... IT HAPPENED THESE PARTICULAR BRASS BANDS PLAYED IN A TOWN WITH PERHAPS 75,000 REFUGEES, MANY OF WHOM WERE LOOKING ON AND MANY OF WHOM WERE ARRESTED BEFORE OR SINCE WITH RADIOS AND OTHER MEANS OF TRANSMITTING INFORMATION TO THE ENEMY. THESE REFUGEES MIGHT NOT HAVE KNOWN THE UNIT'S NUMBER (IDENTIFICATION) OR SIZE SO I PILED NEITHER...
...omnibus appropriation bill, Senate Appropriations Chairman Kenneth McKellar, ancient (81) Tennessee feudist, tangled with an old enemy-House Appropriations Chairman Clarence Cannon, 71. McKellar yelled that Missouri's Cannon was "blind . . . stupid . . . pigheaded" and altogether "goddamned." Cannon, who several years ago traded blows with New York's brass-lunged John Taber, started after McKellar. The tottering McKellar grabbed his long-handled gavel and got ready to swing. Colleagues managed to keep the two old cocks apart...
...despite its brass bosses, is actually a civilian agency which operates as a collector and clearing house of information about the intentions of other nations. It shuns publicity, gets little public attention until something blows up. When something blew up in Korea, U.S. Senators demanded to know why CIA had not given adequate warning. Admiral Hillenkoetter said that CIA had in fact known about heavy North Korean concentrations and had passed the information on. He insisted that CIA's job was merely to report to the departments concerned-State, Defense, etc.-on how things looked...
...Which a brass band, provided by Oxford undergraduates, enthusiastically rendered when the university's Vice Chancellor, Dr. John Lowe, recently took off by helicopter for a speaking date...