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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...libertarian New York public school teacher named Lewis Allan and its lyric was a poetic description of a lynching's terrible finale. Billie liked its dirgelike blues melody, was not so much interested in the song's social content. But Vocalion was. The record was never made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Strange Record | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...Lamp is Low (Mildred Bailey; Vocalion), another tuneful theft from the semi-classics-this time from Ravel's solemn Pavan for a Dead Princess. Tommy Dorsey has made a dancier version for Victor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Strange Record | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

William Walker, called "Singin' Billy," was an itinerant singing master who made the rounds of hundreds of singing schools in the Carolinas, Georgia and Tennessee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singin1 Billy's Book | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...surest, quickest ways to gain its end. The figure New Dealers like to quote as a "minimum" of new locomotives needed to modernize the U. S. rolling power plant is 500 new engines a year; at this rate, barely a dent would be made in U. S. locomotive obsolescence. Assuming that Baldwin got what has been its normal 40% share of such a windfall, that its share was all for steam power (though it makes Diesels, too) at $150,000 an engine, its locomotive sales on New Deal account would be $30,000,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Luck on Tidewater | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

That the Japanese Government finds Wheat and Soldiers wholesome wartime diet is made plate-glass clear by one further fact: the book is being made into a movie in Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wartime Diet | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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