Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pearl Harbor. The offenders therein will face the consequences in good time. Our lack of initiative, our bungling of the home front and our somewhat cheesy solidarity, our handling of the rubber situation, the negative quality of the Atlantic Charter, the mishandling of war information-all these are very minor bungles in a monstrously big job. No government on earth, not even Hitler's so-called model of chill efficiency, could do better, nor should better be expected...
...Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Composer is his equally famed brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, popular song writer (Under the Bamboo Tree, Nobody's Lookin' but the Owl and the Moon), collector and arranger of spirituals, onetime musical director for Oscar Hammerstein, now (at 69) a minor actor in the revival of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. The Johnson brothers thought little of their song after finishing it, but Jacksonville children continued to carol it, passed it on to other Negro schools. Since then it has sold half a million copies, exists also on countless thousands...
Amid the hue & cry of Congressional debate, a political revolution of at least minor importance was about to be enacted this week. Ready for final passage was the soldiers' vote bill. And though Southern Senators might weep and States' rights theorists tear their hair, the bill suspended poll taxes for the duration of the war, as far as soldiers and sailors are concerned...
Since a total of six cuts, either major or minor, are allowed this summer, many students who now have no more than three cuts have officially finished their athletic prescription, because all men will be excused from exercise next week. Most athletic facilities, however, will remain accessible straight through examination week for all who desire to use them...
Unfortunately there are only four records now listed which represent Newton's genius adequately, three on Bluebird under his name. "Minor Jive" is momentarily unavailable, but the other two may still be found in the record shops. "The World Is Waiting" is a marvelous example of Newton's modesty and simplicity, and "Blues My Baby Gave To Me" is among the finest blues solos ever recorded. Frank's solo on the remaining record, Bessie Smith's "Gimme a Pigfoot," on UHCA, is already legendary...