Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drums, and Mike Siegel on tenor sax manage to turn out some solos that are good enough for anybody's wing. Stan does the sweet vocals, and odes a good imitation of the Jack Leonard style of singing. Fem vocalist Dorothy Sinatra, sister of Harry James'vocalist, does even better...
Thus we have Tommy Dorsey who never made a colored swing style record, who lately has been doing either very feeble Dixieland or even more feeble sweet music trying to do one of the famous Lunceford arrangements...
...feel that it is very unfortunate to imply that young men who have the convictions of the American Independence League as expressed in CRIMSON editorials are short-sighted or cowardly. Such use of epithets puts us almost back to the days when even sauerkraut must be called" liberty cabbage." Their program is true Americanism. If this is cowardice our forefathers were double cowards, because they took advantage of the embarrassment of the Hanoverlan dynasty with the French to withdraw from the British Empire in the wars...
...become involved in this war, and we seem to be drifting even more rapidly than before in the 1914-1917 path, I think we should have no illusions. This war will probably not be won by money, good wishes, or airplanes. The starvation of 1917-1918 and the following one due to the continuing blockade between the Armistice and the Versailles Treaty, claimed in itself by German agricultural economists of repute to have cost the lives of 800,000 Germans, taught Germany one lesson. For twenty years they have been preparing with their potatoes, sweet lupine, and other crops...
...happen when we add to the confusion and cynicism of 1918-1939 the increased bitterness of feeling arising out of another involvement? Those destructive and cynical elements found to a considerable extent in Fascism, Nazism, Communism, and full Machiavellian movements are the products of this confusion. Americans are psychologically even more susceptible to these than the European peoples from which we came. This statement may be demonstrated by any serious study...