Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Eliot, Herbert remembers little except his inevitable squashed hat and his bicycling around the Yard with his wife, but President Lowell was once the first to send flowers when a relative of Herbert's died. President Lowell never passed him without his proverbial "How do you do?" He thinks of him as a "very nice gentlemanly...
Raymond Frisch has been a machine operator in the hat industry since 1935, and Joseph McIntosh was a mechanic and hydroplant operator for a Southern Utility Corporation until 1939, when he became an international representative of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Similar stories lie back of the other Fellows, Charles Connor, Samuel Hassen, Frederick Kelley, Lyle McKinney, Morris Paladino, Joseph Riley, Charles Scholl, Milton Schulman, Edward Wagenfeld, and Norman Johnson...
...Lyon, hell-flying hero of the epic Hell's Angels and many another derring-do flicker, the event was a victory over brass-hat morale builders who had wanted him to be a tidily uniformed entertainer. But to the soldiers, sailors and airmen who, since November 1939, have listened in weekly to an Empire broadcast titled Hi, Gang!, the U.S.A.A.F.'s gain was a loss felt from Iceland to New Guinea. For unnumbered U.S. servicemen have also been eager tuners-in to the show which Ben Lyon, his wife Bebe Daniels, and Vic Oliver have...
...began to strike political as well as artistic snags. Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini had agreed on their hatred of modern music. As World War II approached, many of the league's European members wavered between exile and totalitarianism. Spain's famed Manuel de Falla (The Three-Cornered Hat) signed with Dictator Franco. Parisian Composers Arthur Honegger and Florent Schmitt toured Germany as honored guests of the Third Reich. Italian Modernist G. Francesco Malipiero began writing Fascist anthems for Mussolini. Unable to cope with political wanderings, in 1939 the embarrassed league restricted its composer membership to U.S. citizens...
...these moves are only pinch-hitting measures. They can be knocked into a cocked hat by the first New England blizzard that slows rail traffic. The nub of the trouble is that New England is still using daily 100,000 bbl. of oil more than it is receiving. Because it thought it would get more oil, only 20% of New England industry has converted to coal and still less conversion has been done by home owners. Two buildings that could have been converted are the State House and City Hall in Boston. Annual savings: 1.5 million gal. of fuel...