Word: eppel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When I read of your 'human' deeds toward 'distressed German youth' and of how your new worshipers applauded you, I knew that in your audience there must have sat those two passionate lovers of music, Eppel and Kempke-SS men from the Kurewitz camp near Lemberg-who liked to have us sing while they shot our brothers down. . . . Wherever you travel our newspaper will follow you like a curse until your conscience awakes...
Last week Harry Truman found himself saddled with a theme song, too. When he stepped from his plane at San Francisco, the band wobbled through The Missouri Waltz. When he went to Independence, The Missouri Waltz (which was originally composed by an lowan, John Valentine Eppel) followed him. The Chicago publishers had to fill a rush order for scores from Missouri when the President got back home...