Word: going
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mostly true: Jesse Stacy, former Goodman ace, is joining Bob Crosby to take over piano duties, Joe Sullivan retiring for another vacation . . . Singer Bob Eberle is leaving Jimmy Dorsey to go with Bobby Byrn's new band. But both will remain with Dorsey for the time being. . . Artie Shaw's huffiness about having to use jitterbug terms in his MGM picture strengthens the impression that he has gone highhat. So do the three law suits he is involved in right now for having made himself generally obnoxious, the worst offence being at the Canadian National Exposition when he arrived three...
...Embargo Repeal." "Borab Says Repeal Means War." "Seymour Says Allies Must Win." The writhing head-lines pound meaninglessly at the Vagabond's head as he tries to understand and to make up his own mind. Join the Allies and save democracy from the totalitarians? Stay out under all circumstances? Go into the business with measures short of war? Not just idle questions, for perhaps they are even matters of life and death to the Vagabond...
...nature of war itself? What conditions are necessary to cause this phenomenon which makes men kill their own kind? Perhaps it only requires a single man to bring about such a catastrophe; perhaps factors over which humans have no control are involved. The answer to this question alone should go far toward helping him decide between intervention and isolation...
...effective? Some hint as to the possible reaction can be gained from Alf Landon's reply. It is brief, non-committal, obvious. It shows plainly Mr. Landon's embarrassment. But it contains no hint of a willingness to cooperate. One fears that, Mr. Conant notwithstanding, the debate will go on--bitterly, irrationally, without inhibitions. The only hope of thinking persons is that eventually reason will prevail on a national scale, and that the decision thus made will be reflected in Congress over the adroitly dramatized objections of an irresponsible and misguided minority...
When questioned as to his future plans, Roosevelt said, "I plan to go back soon again to China...