Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wheelchair, had a personality so magnetic as to draw one great musician after another on the 15 mile pilgrimage to the Vinal hozze in South Weymouth. On a home records waxings were made of Charley jammings with Josh White, Frank Newton, J. Jones, Basie, and the Crosby band to mention only a few. With one musical climax following another, the apex of Charley's career may be said to have occurred this past summer when, under the guiding hand of George Avakian, he gathered together his own Dixieland Band which was featured at Harvard Jazz Club sessions and early opened...
Correspondent Bigart singled out for special mention the work of 25-year-old Corporal George Sylvester Viereck Jr., who stood in the mouth of the cave blasting away with his Garand rifle at oncoming Nazis while an artillery barrage thundered down on them from the rear. Said Corporal Viereck: "We had a feeling of animal joy as that stuff came down on the surrounding Germans...
...joke when I say that TIME deserves worthy mention for the excellent job it is doing in salvaging the best from the terrestrial, the aquatic, the aerial, and the arboreal boiling pot of world news. TIME also deserves much credit for fostering a democratic exchange of ideas at a period when broad and tolerant ideas apparently seem taboo. But still greater praise should be given TIME for maintaining a sense of humor in reporting matters of utmost concern and gravity, for in times like these God himself must surely possess a sense of humor in order to endure some...
Meanwhile the Army-ruled Federal Commissioner in Entre Rios, taking his cue from the Big Boss in B.A., forbade provincial newspapers-at cost of permanent suppression-to make any mention whatsoever of such dangerous subjects as the Constitution, freedom or religion...
...Democrats gathered at the National Democratic Club in Manhattan to celebrate the 201st birthday of Thomas Jefferson. At least 201 times in the three hours of oratory, the shade of Jefferson was invoked. But not once did State Chairman James A. Farley, or any other speaker, so much as mention the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt...