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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fair music director, proposed to buy Manhattan a festival she would never forget. Two months later news leaked out that the campaign had flopped, that the Fair's most spectacular musical event would be a song fest in the Court of Peace by the world's largest and loudest collection of glee-club singers (5,000 amateur voices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fair Music | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...work overtime, but contribute only a drop in the bucket. In spite of numerous free school clinics, over 95% of U. S. school children are seriously in need of dental care. With these facts in mind, 3,400 members of the Dental Society of the State of New York, largest dental group in the country, met with 4,500 other dentists in Manhattan last week for the prime purpose of discussing Senator Wagner's Bill and how Federal grants to States for their various health plans would affect dental practice. To their dismay, their meeting started off with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Three-Fourths of the Nation | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...considerably smaller than the average issue admitted to the Big Board. And American, having been listed on the Curb only three years, has neither the profit record nor the "seasoning" that has traditionally been required for Stock Exchange listing. But the exchange was glad to list American as the largest unit of a growing industry. American is glad to have the more active market on the Big Board, for it may be obliged to issue more shares to improve its current weak cash position. Due to heavy purchases of new planes, its cash on hand is only about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: To the Big League | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...largest teachers local in Massachusetts, and is exceeded in size only by the New York local...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Plans to Address Cambridge Teachers' Union | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...ensemble swing and "show" numbers such as "Put On My Old Grey Bonnet," Lunceford has one of the few colored outfits in the country that play really danceable, tasteful sweet music. His "Dream of You" was voted outstanding dance record of the year in 1938 by one of the largest swing clubs in the country. His "Remember When," an old Victor recording, makes "Gloomy Sunday" seem something like a nursery rhyme. And on all of his records, saxmen Willie Smith and Joe Thomas, brass men Oliver, Webster, and Young, and the rhythm section provide good solos. Incidentally, if you think...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swing | 5/19/1939 | See Source »

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