Word: juke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decreases in amateur competition, he is a popular and useful phenomenon. To musical artists, of whom he has said that there is "no difference between Heifetz playing the fiddle and a fiddler in a tavern," to the non-union Boston Symphony, to the moguls of canned music and juke boxes, and to the record buying public he is an obstinately unpleasant phenomenon...
...informed that if you enforce this edict three direct consequences will be the elimination of new electrical transcriptions for the use of radio stations, the elimination of new popular records for so-called 'juke boxes,' and the elimination of new popular and classical records for home consumption. I am further informed that this move in all probability will lead to court fights, possible strikes, and definitely curtailed musical service to the public in-the critical months ahead. [It] can scarcely fail to have a negative effect on morale...
...James Caesar Petrillo, boss of the 140,000 union musicians in the U.S., thundered out an edict last week that shook two giant branches of the amusement industry. He told the American Federation of Musicians convention in Dallas, Tex. that union musicians will be forbidden to make records for juke boxes or radio shows after Aug. 1. If carried out, this order would be a body blow to the coin-machine business, a serious problem to smaller radio stations...
...Dancers at juke joints who dance with anyone who has enough nickels to feed the record-playing juke box and buy them drinks...
Lost in the dust of this hurrying traffic are Juke Girl Ann Sheridan and her profession. Instead of working at it, she has to spend most of her time avoiding Richard Whorf, who runs with the labor-bait-ing packinghouse gang, and patching up Ronald Reagan, who likes the pickers. In a rather dull game of social significance and truck theft, the pickers beat the packers...