Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week. Last September, still trouping but almost forgotten by the U. S. public, which has in the past three years taken to hot music with an intensity surpassing even the mania of the late 1920's, Bessie Smith died after a motor accident in Clarksdale, Miss. Last week Columbia Phonograph Co. issued a Bessie Smith Album, containing re-pressings of six of the 80-odd records she made between...
...Columbia's Bessie Smith selections, from the numerous discs it cautiously labeled "race records" and ceased issuing about 1929, include: St. Louis Blues, simple and powerful, and Reckless Blues, accompanied by Louis Armstrong on the cornet and Fred Longshaw on a portable organ. Fletcher Henderson, who played the piano for her Weeping Willow Blues, with Joe Smith on the cornet, calls this the greatest blues record ever made. Careless Love is W. C. Handy's arrangement of what is almost a U. S. folk song. Trombone Cholly, with the late Trombonist Charlie Green playing among Bessie Smith...
...Harvard-Yale game will be broadcast by three networks, it was announced at the H.A.A. office last evening. Bill Stern will describe for N.B.C., Bill Slater for Yankee, and Ted Husing for Columbia...
Lobbyists of the A. M. A. cried: "Physicians who sell their services to an organization like Group Health Association for resale to patients are certain to lose professional status. The probable results on the medical profession of the successful operation in the District of Columbia of a single organization such as Group Health Association cannot be estimated...
...questions involving the function of education in the larger social and philosophical sense, its effect on democracy, its definition. Such a lack of emphasis, though not a fundamental weakness to the organization of the School, has sent a few of the best students to other colleges for teachers, like Columbia or Chicago, which offer a more comprehensive program...