Word: companions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Songs of Old California (four-record Decca album). Companion to Decca's New York song album, this one evokes California's past almost as well. Beginning with songs of the vaqueros, cowboys, and miners, the collection winds up with famed California Poet George Sterling's comic tribute to the State's molluscular mascot, Abalone...
After Ignace Jan Paderewski, 78, collapsed minutes before his Manhattan concert* last week, Eldon G. Joubert, his piano-tuner and companion for 30 years, was asked if the Maestro would ever give another. Said Joubert sadly: "I wonder. He's worn...
...posthumous claimants was Francis Bellamy, who, in 1892, was an editorial employe of the Youth's Companion in Boston. Mr. Bellamy unquestionably did a job of propaganda to revive patriotic fervor and incidentally stimulated the thriving circulation of the Companion (then in its heyday: circulation around 488,000). To the day of his death in 1931 (aged 75), Francis Bellamy insisted that he wrote The Pledge...
James B. Upham, whom Mr. Bellamy later recalled as an "inspiring old patriot," was a junior partner in the Companion. After James Upham died in 1905, The Upham Family Association of Maiden, Mass, announced that he had prepared the original draft, that Francis Bellamy was only one of several Companionate contributors to the final version. As president of the U. S. Flag Association, Colonel James A. Moss, U. S. A. retired, in 1930 approved the Upham claim...
...Washington Rep. Dewey Short (Missouri, R.), squawked that the Federal Theatre Project produced plays with "suggestive or salacious" titles, cited as samples of "vulgar and villainous activities which the people of the U. S. must be taxed for" : The Bishop Misbehaves, Companion-mate Maggie, Just a Love Nest, The King and the Chorus Girl, Lend Me Your Husband, Old Captain Romeo's Four Wives, Up in Mabel's Room...