Word: joshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before racial prejudice again this week, right here in Boston, too, in a manner reminiscent of the Affaire Marian Anderson of two years ago. Those of you who heard Frankic Newton's broadcast last Sunday remember the sensitive guitar strummings and down to earth blues singing by Joshua White. Josh White accompanied Libby Hofman, who learned to sing the blues from him, over at the Balinese Room of the Somerset this past week. He has produced three fine albums, devoted especially to his songs, but a musician of his accomplishments is just another Negro to the innkeepers of Commonwealth Avenue...
...terrific; aid should be sent to General MacArthur; perhaps MacArthur should have been in Singapore in the first place; CCC and NYA should be abandoned; there should be no "political conduct of this war." In World War I, Millard Tydings was a good & able soldier. Oklahoma's Josh Lee, a 100% spellbinding New Dealer, cracked: ". . . General Tydings . . . the greatest advocate I have heard so far of trying to conduct the war from the floor of the Senate...
...Austin of Vermont and Chan Gurney of South Dakota introduced an amendment to repeal the Neutrality Act in its entirety. This clove the Senate G.O.P. down to its muddled brisket, completely took the play away from such Democratic fire-eaters as Carter Glass of Virginia, Claude Pepper of Florida, Josh Lee of Oklahoma, who were preparing to do the same thing...
Beetle-browed, 69-year-old Colonel Wedgwood is no fancy-pants. He fought for Britain in the Boer War, in World War I was wounded and won his D.S.O. Like the first Josiah, who got himself well hated for championing the cause of the upstart American colonies, Colonel "Josh" is a fighting progressive. For 35 years (first as Liberal, then as Laborite) he has been a Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme...
...last month Colonel Josh landed in the U.S. He had every right to be there -for 90% of the business of Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd. (whose managing director is the Colonel's son Josiah) is done in Canada, the West Indies...