Word: marche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their songs, so that the Lyn Murray Chorus sounded ludicrous in the insinuating verses of Do It Again: "You won't regret it ... [flutter of turning pages]. . . . Come and get it. . . ." Least whistleable, least inspired Gershwin item on the program was Dawn of a New Day, the "Official March" he wrote for the New York World's Fair...
...report of the 23 gentlemen from the South, Mr. Mellett will present President Roosevelt with a useful document: a "report" whose homely truths would go down more easily in the South than such blunt criticism of Southern wages and economic standards as Franklin Roosevelt voiced last March at Gainesville; a basis for Administration action which would then look more like an obedient answer to the South's requests than Presidential interference in the South's favorite ways of life...
...took advantage of TVA's corporate status to file a civil suit against it. He sued in a local chancery court instead of in U. S. District Court, where TVA would prefer to answer his demands for: 1) $2,916.66 back salary accrued since the President fired him March 23 for obstructing TVA affairs and contumacy; 2) recognition as TVA chairman, on the ground that the President had no authority to discharge...
...place and has come to stay. Terror reigns throughout the population and nobody dares give a plain answer to a plain question. . . . All the jails are full and the concentration camp at Dachau (near Munich) has grown to unwieldy proportions. . . . The total number placed in jails since March 12 (when Austria was annexed by the Reich) can hardly be less than 50,000 and is probably more...
Sandwiched neatly between winter boom and summer slump of sponsored radio, the week of March 6 was chosen by the Federal Communications Commission's statisticians as typical for their first large-scale survey of what was coming over the air. Reports from 633 stations, released last week, revealed the percentage of broad casting time given to the seven major types of radio programs. One item surprised listeners...