Word: demands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Public is always an interesting study. This is especially true where bands are concerned. Of the numerous name bands which are in demand, all are big favorites in certain sections of the country. Yet, they all vary in style and size. Some have novelty features that catch on, and others have music "fascinate," still others have simplicity that sells, and there are those whose showmanship is "the magnetic power;" nevertheless they are all box office attractions. Sometimes we wonder if really preparing music in the pure sense is worth the trouble because in many places our audiences seem to turn...
Those who work for world union will have a fight on their hands, a fight against powerful forces. Just what these forces are has become apparent through recent developments in England. In that country, Liberals, Laborites, and left-wing Conservatives have in the past month brought a demand for world federalism into the august halls of Parliament. In pushing the government to make constructive plans for peace, they have made it clear that they feel the first step must be a renunciation of much of England's national sovereignty and empire. On December 5, last Tuesday, Lord Halifax rose...
...face for a while. During his first year in the pool Art negotiated the 50 in very close to 24 seconds flat, and while his backstroke 100's which at one time approached the 1:02 mark are valuable, his sprinting ability will probably be more in demand this season...
...majority of French opinion...is inclined to regard the Versailles Peace, in retrospect, as too mild, rather than too harsh, and to demand that the present war shall be followed by a peace which would completely eliminate any possibility of a revival of German military power...
Died. Sammy Boy, 16, snow-white Siberian Samoyed brought to the U. S. by Arctic Explorer Roald Amundsen, so much in demand for commercial dog photographs that his name was listed in the Los Angeles telephone book; of a heart attack; in San Francisco (where he was to act in a charity show...