Word: disbandment
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...become a luxury that people were unwilling to pay for. In empty nightclubs and ballrooms their tricky arrangements were being heard mostly by the waiters, who were appreciative but unprofitable listeners. In the past eight weeks, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Les Brown and Jack Teagarden decided to disband. Gene Krupa and Jimmy Dorsey cut salaries. This week Woody Herman gave...
Considine explained that his Committee, an outgrowth of wide undergraduate sentiment that the Council could be made more democratic, would keep its original pledge not to disband until its suggestions are duly considered by the Council. He reiterated the group's two basic recommendations: to supplant elections-at-large by direct mechanisms and to allot to the basic units of the undergraduate body, the Houses, proportional delegation to the Council...
This week the era of the Wisconsin Idea came to an end. Delegates representing the last of the Progressives met in a frame hall at Portage, Wis., to disband the party, return to the G.O.P. Young Bob was facing another election-and he could win only as a Republican. There were still men who wanted to go defiantly on. Said Scandinavian-born Farmer Ole Lund: "When we discard a piece of machinery on the farm we think twice before we hitch on to it again." But there was no choice. The Democrats could offer no hope of victory. Quietly...
Demobilization. The cessation of active campaigning does not mean that we can completely disband our fighting forces. The War and Navy Departments now estimate that by a year from now we still will need a strength of about two million. ... In case the campaign for volunteers does not produce that number, it will be necessary by additional legislation to extend the Selective Service Act beyond...
...Pound Their Heads." A flurry of political activity followed. The Political Association of Great Japan, the nation's totalitarian party, prepared to disband-and to reorganize under new colors. The East Asia Federation, a patriotic society, made ready to enter politics; its leader seemed likely to be fanatical Lieut. General Kanji Ishihara, a retired Kwantung Army sword-rattler who helped plot the Manchurian adventure...