Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made the best deal of his career. Playing a burlesque house in Kansas City, he was hired to fill in at a nearby vaudeville house for an act which failed to show up. His routine consisted principally of falling into the orchestra pit and coming up with a bass drum wrapped around his neck. A pretty usherette thought the act was so bad that she complained to the manager. Skelton was fired. Few months later he married the usherette...
Japanese-held East Asia, however, is virtually unblessed with petroleum. Almost every drum of gas and gallon of oil that Japan burns in her tanks, planes and other empire-building machinery must be imported. Biggest source of supply, outside of the U.S., is The Netherlands Indies, with whom Japan last year contracted for an annual supply of 1,800,000 tons...
...Chicago's 400,000 Polish-Americans whipped up a fervid campaign with drum-&-bugle corps, peasant songs, shouted refrains from Poland's national anthem (Poland's Not Yet Dead). From a Polish family in Manhattan came a pot with this message pasted inside: "Lots of luck to this bomber. Hope it gets Hitler...
...most colonial experts outside Germany, the Nazis' colonial drum used to sound pretty limp from banging, was not a very compelling instrument. Even Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf loudly disclaimed colonial ambitions, insisted rather on the European expansion of the Reich. He knew perfectly well, for instance, that all the African colonies which the Allies took from Germany after World War I had cost Germany far more than they were worth, had accounted for only one two-hundredth of Germany's trade, had attracted less than 20,000 German colonizers...
...after Adolf Hitler came to power he wanted colonies for strategy and prestige. And today, when his strategy is simply to take what he wants, when his prestige comes from doing so, he has found that colonial drum pounding helps to drown out German complaints about food shortages and ersatz commodities. Present Nazi talk of gaining not only Germany's lost colonies but all Africa carries a great deal more weight than mere propaganda...