Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profession was sound cinema which first became audible in 1926. By 1929 the movies' "canned" musical accompaniments had thrown 10,000 musicians into the streets. Radio stations began to use "electrical transcriptions" more & more, performers less & less. The American Federation of Musicians groped for a way to fight this displacement, had to content itself with issuing cruel cartoons and advertisements attacking "robot music" (TIME...
...leader in the fight to get live musicians back into theatres and dance halls was swart, hard-fisted James C. Petrillo, president of Chicago's Federation of Musicians. Last week he launched his most daring offensive against music canners by forbidding any member of the Chicago union to make a record, beginning Feb. 1, 1937, without permission of his executive board. Many called the edict brave, more declared it impracticable. But possibly it might be the first move in a campaign of national proportions...
...China should consider an immediate anti-Japanese military expedition her only national task at present. Therefore we could not wait longer. We want to fight...
...Chiang apparently was of the opinion that Dr. Kung, in trying to race the Communists to Sian with his Government troops, was likely to upset Kidnapper Chang so much that he would murder her husband instead of joining up with the Dictator in a deal to fight Japan. It was rather tactless for Dr. Kung to say of her husband in an official broadcast by the Acting Premier last week, "While we are all anxious that Generalissimo Chiang may be rescued . . . our attitude is that the personal safety of one man should not be allowed to interfere. . . . It gives...
...London newspaper has editorially let slip during the recent crisis its fears that when the next war comes U. S. citizens may have a slogan as important as "Remember the Maine!"-namely, "Remember Mrs. Simpson!"-and be disinclined to rush overseas a second time to help the "Mother Country" fight. Not in the least far-fetched in the United Kingdom today, this authentic fear was giving serious concern in Whitehall. In 1936 thus far Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin has received at No. 10 Downing St. no U. S. citizen of however great distinction, excepting diplomats, and to a member...