Word: masterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negroes began to clamor for official positions with the Government which had set them free. An active early colored Abolitionist was Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, slave son of a slave mother by a white father. When he fled from Maryland to the North after the wife of his master had secretly taught him to read and write, he changed his name to Frederick Douglass, became famed as an Abolition orator and editor. As his fame grew, Northern friends who feared he would be returned to Maryland under the Fugitive Slave Law sent him to England to drum up sympathy...
...first time sackfuls of friendly letters. Apparently these were written by people who listened to the abdication broadcast of the Duke of Windsor, a broadcast so moving that last week the official B. B. C. in London for the first time refused to let His Master's Voice Ltd. make and sell in England phonograph records of a royal broadcast.* It would be a travesty of British facts not to say roundly that there was "the heaviest possible British censorship emanating from official quarters" last week. Actually this never ceased. Before, during and since the crisis, no London newspaper...
...Once again British censorship was defeated, even before His Master's Voice Ltd. were squelched. Within a few hours after the broadcast, Manhattan's mammoth Macy's department store was selling excellent records at $1 each, shipping them on request to England as forbidden fruit...
...bell-like voice through a gamut of songs from Ave Maria to Swanee River, from The Flower Song by Dr. Hugo Reisenfeld to Rainbow on the River by Paul Webster & Louis Alter. When not adroitly playing his own accompaniments on an adult size banjo. Soprano Breen shows himself past master of vaudeville song-plugging technique, including clenched fists, rolling eyes and trembling smile...
...they gave the Vans a salary of $100,000 a year, how Mr. Ball bought out most of Mr. Tomlinson's stock in Midamerica so that he now owns over 90%; how finally when the Vans died, thus terminating the option and proxy, Mr. Ball found himself the master of the Van Sweringen empire...