Word: lombardos
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...other favorite band, Paul Whiteman's, played a promising new song called With a Song in My Heart. Bing Crosby was touring in vaudeville. That week the stockmarket crashed, and Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt introduced a Chicago band to its customers. The band, fancily titled Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians, played Stardust and My Blue Heaven. They still...
...years between, many a band had risen and fallen: bands with no violins, and bands with 15 of them; bands with plenty of brass, and at least one with none; bands that featured Rippling Rhythm, bands that played Champagne Music. For about the 7,500th time, Guy Lombardo's band slow-dragged I Love You Truly...
...leading Padilla-baiter was Vicente Lombardo Toledano, loud-speaking leftist chief of the powerful Latin American Federation of Labor. At San Francisco, declared Lombardo, Padilla had stooged for the U.S. State Department. He had an "anti-Soviet phobia"; his attacks on the Russian delegation had followed the propaganda line of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, pet hate of Latin American labor...
...Last week, with Washington's curfew on nightspots about to cut Manhattan's big bands off the air at the stroke of 12, the networks were combing the Midwest for late hour fill-ins. Some of the substitutions planned: Chris Cross (Denver) for Tommy Dorsey and Guy Lombardo; George Sterney (Cleveland) for Louis Armstrong; George Hamilton (St. Louis) for George Olsen and Leo Reisman; Boyd Raeburn (Chicago) for Tony Pastor...
...invite delegates from ex-enemy countries, i.e., Rumania, Finland, Bulgaria, who would presumably always support the Soviet delegation. French, Indian and Polish delegates backed Britain. Russian Delegate M. P. Tarasov flatly rejected the "extremely unpersuasive" arguments of "Comrade Citrine." Strongest Soviet backer turned out to be fiery Vicente Lombardo Toledano, of the potent Confederation de Trabajadores de America Latina. The capable Mexican labor leader, having in recent years extended his organization into other Latin American countries, was able as the representative of some 4,000,000 workers to make his strength felt. An open split was averted by the arrival...