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Author Charlie Gillett begins his story back in the '40s, when the rhythm-and-blues musicians who sang about "rock and roll" were talking about loving, not music. It took some shrewd record producers and a Cleveland disk jockey named Alan Freed to make the term-and the music itself-acceptable to a larger, white audience. The sound came off the streets and was segregated as carefully as the people who listened...
...when the G.O.P. won control of Congress, the nominal heir apparent was James R. Mann of Illinois, the Republican floor leader. But Mann had been a supporter of the policies of despotic Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon, and he lost the speakership to Massachusetts' Frederick H. Gillett...
...Love Thee? In South Bend, Ind.. Mrs. Ina M. Gillett, 52, suing for, divorce, testified that for eight years her husband had not spoken to her except to ask, once each year, when he was making out their joint income tax, how much money she was earning...
...flaws were pointed out. A Speaker or President pro tem might not be able to qualify (if born outside the U.S., or if younger than 35). More importantly, a Speaker might well be a political opponent of the Administration he would take over. Recent examples: Republican Speaker Frederick H. Gillett in the Wilson Administration (1919); Democratic Speaker John Nance Garner in the Hoover Administration...
...Board of Directors of Standard Brands, Inc. has never had a chairman. When the office was created last week everyone knew who would fill it: Joseph Wilshire, president since 1929 when Fleischmann Co. was merged with E. W. Gillett Co., Ltd. and Royal Baking Powder Co. Upped to the presidency was Thomas L. Smith...