Word: buster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rouse. His lack of success at rabble-rousing was demonstrated 31 years ago, in 1910, when Theodore Roosevelt, just returned from Africa, picked Henry Stimson, the crack U.S. Attorney in New York City, to run for Governor of New York. Banking heavily on Henry Stimson's record as buster of the sugar trust, successful prosecutor of the famed market manipulator, Charles W. Morse, T. R. called on New York to rally behind young "Harry" Stimson. He might as well have referred publicly to Charles Evans Hughes as "Spike." On the stump high-collared Henry Stimson spoke...
...help from their onetime great friend, Franklin Roosevelt. When reporters had asked him to comment on the scrap he waved an airy hand, said there were more important things to think about. And the new week's news was worrisome: Congress suddenly got ready to give Trust Buster Thurman Arnold the unprecedented sum of $750,000-just about enough to investigate radio, observers guessed. And radio's in-&-out friend, Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, announced he would begin hearings May 31 on a bill for a radio investigation. Radio men wondered: would FCC or the industry...
...Yankee Attorney hired by the anti-lottery league to smash the racket, should fall in love with coquettish Julie (Ona Munson), Rebel daughter of goateed General Mirbeau (Henry Stephenson), owner of the lottery. When sudden death overtakes the General and promotes his daughter to head of the lottery, Buster Reynolds is confronted with the painful problem of destroying his light-o-love's source of income without losing her affection...
Coffee-colored, dead-pan John Kirby, once a trombonist and tuba player, now slaps and bows the bull fiddle. He, too, swings the classics, in his own delicate, sophisticated arrangements and those of his black, impish trumpeter, Charlie Shavers. Kirby's clarinetist is an oldtimer: goggle-eyed Buster Bailey, who looks half of his 39 years. The band-filled out by Pianist Billy Kyle, Drummer O'Neil Spencer, Alto Saxophonist Russell Procope (rhymes with "no soap")-has been unchanged for nearly three years, a phenomenon in the trade. But Kirby was lately separated from the sweet singer...
...white tenor sax which shows Georgie Auld to be improving by leaps and bounds. There are few white tenor men who can come near him these days (COLUMBIA) . . . Reissue of the week is Ride Red Ride by the old Mills Blue Rhythm band, which includes Red Allen, Buster Bailey, and J. C. Higginbotham. For a real "killer" tune, you can't go wrong on this. It's played at a breakneck pace, and is a fight to the finish, although it's hard to say who wins (OKEH) . . . Fats Waller turns out more insane novelty on "All That Meat...