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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Destruction of University College, its hospital, and most of the publishing-houses in London was reported by Fulton. However, both the British Museum and St. Paul's Cathedral escaped serious harm when 50-kilo bombs crashed through their roofs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HIGH ALTITUDE EQUIPMENT FOR U.S. PLANES PROPOSED | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...drummer doesn't fit in with a band, he's playing flash and is a one-man band himself. This seems to me to be extremely important in jazz music. For drums are naturally the loudest instruments in an orchestra, and consequently a bad drummer can do more harm to a good band than any other musician...

Author: By Charles Miller, | Title: SWING | 12/7/1940 | See Source »

...needed "sanctification," urged the necessity for an efficient priesthood. To Mexican Catholics the Pope gave sound advice: "Be good to the poor, to workers, to Indians; promote application of the principles of justice and charity; eliminate abuses, at the same time guarding against violent changes which only would cause harm instead of good." But only in Russia has the Church been under more systematic political fire than in Mexico since the dictatorship of Plutarco Elias Calles. Churches were burned and looted, their bricks used to make roads and their bells melted to make statues of revolutionary leaders. Images were piled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Am a Believer | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...they're far from being "cheap and disgusting." Barnet has a more-than-adequate swing band whose reed and brass sections are clean and well-balanced, and whose rhythm section can really jump when it wants. There's nothing in the Barnet make-up that would cause him to harm the music created by a man whose work he has always admired and respected. Don't worry, Charlie knows what constitutes bad taste. Listen to his recording of The Worng Idea and see what he thinks of men really "doing irreparable injury to the cause of reputable, heartfelt jazz...

Author: By Charles Miler, | Title: SWIN | 11/9/1940 | See Source »

...denounced a President who would cling to those powers ("Personal craving for power, the overweening, abnormal and selfish craving for increased power is a thing to alarm and dismay"). A genuine isolationist, he spoke from the heart on the issue most likely to do Campaigner Roosevelt immediate harm ("His motivation and his objective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Lewis to His Countrymen | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

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