Word: drum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Steelmaster Sheldon then sat down to watch a drill by the Pioneer Firemen Drum & Bugle Corps. Also taking part was the Tarentum Legion Drum & Bugle Corps, newly equipped this year with epaulets and fittings of Allegheny stainless steel...
...delegation of local bigwigs, some 6,000 citizens and five women's fife & drum corps were waiting in Buffalo, N. Y.'s railroad station one morning last week when Nominee Alf M. Landon's special train rolled up to the turning point of his Eastern campaign tour. Nominee Landon, rid of his lingering pleurisy, waved his hat, cried "Hello everybody!" and singled out two small boys for special greeting. Stepping out of his way to shake their hands, he asked: "How do you do, little...
Pictures showing His Majesty beating an Orangeman's drum when Prince of Wales, were next burned at Belfast amid Irish jeers. Finally through Belfast streets rumbled a float on which an effigy of Irish Free State President Eamon de Valera dressed as a nurse attended a baby carriage in which sat an effigy of King Edward sucking a bottle of liquid labeled "DOPE...
...biggest seller. Also in Elkhart is big Martin Band Instrument Co., whose founder walked there after being burned out in the Chicago fire in 1871, got a job with Conn, branched out with his five sons in 1907. In Elkhart, too, is Leedy Manufacturing Co., famed for its trap drums. No. 1 U. S. drum maker is Chicago's Ludwig & Ludwig...
...several years before that a Honolulu resident named Clarence W. MacFarlane had tried to drum up interest in such a race. He found yachtsmen eager to sail ''down" to Honolulu, but fearful of sailing back "up" to California against the prevailing Trade Winds. MacFarlane set out in his 48-ft. schooner La Paloma to prove that this was no great problem. Arriving safely at San Francisco on April 19, 1906, he was irked because there was no reception committee. Finally he spied a friend. "Hello, Mac," said the San Franciscan, "Isn't this terrible...