Word: labelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ability to label a pistol as a gun proved helpful for buck privates who wanted to gain chevrons, but was only a first step. Draftees now go directly from reception centres to tactical units which are below war strength. But after next March, they will spend 14 weeks at replacement centres now building, to learn something of soldiering before joining seasoned troops. Those who look good on the basis of their G. C. test and show leadership qualities will get a crack at commanding, may attain the status of "cadet" or "temporary sergeant," wear not chevrons but an identifying...
...really good girl singers around these days. Reverse is The Golden Wedding, full of jungle music and tom-toms. Okay if you like that sort of thing.... Somebody by the name of Walter Cross has a piano solo called Creepy Weepy on BLUEBIRD. The label says it's boogie-woogie, but it's not. It's not anything at all, just a mess of inane runs and phrases that don't get anywhere.... The Jimmie Lunceford softball team, fresh from a victory over Benny Goodman's outfit, has challenged the Crimson to a game any time next spring. "You just...
...their way through the novelty vocal, and Bradley takes a swell trombone ride with a tom-tom backing... Johnny Hodges steals the show on Duke Ellington's Warm Valley (VICTOR), a slow, dreamy tune, arrangement of which is remarkably unpretentious. Reverse, The Flaming Sword, says "fox-trot" on the label, but just try dancing to it, and the elaborate rhythmic patterns will have you giving out on the old one-two-three-kick... Lionel Hampton's latest offering features an unusual combination: rhythm section with two guitars, Spanish (Douglas Daniels) and electric (Teddy Bunn). Coupling is Pigfoot Sonata and Just...
...taught in the villages "hidden in the folds of France" as well as in the fine cities of the plain. Here as there, within these whitewashed walls where the noble device of the Republic-Liberté, Egalité, Fraternite-imposes itself on the eyes of all as the glorious label of a regime, she teaches moral cleanliness, courage in action, respect for the given word, tolerance. . . . May those who wrought the last hours of our defeat be forever castigated in the history of our country...
...undermining our military security. We may be required for a decade, for a generation, to maintain a gigantic defense establishment. And a nation heavily armed and primed for total war is ripe for fascism, not necessarily an imported German brand, but a home-grown product sold us under the label of "national defense...