Word: panning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately for the effect of Governor Leche's soothing words, last speaker on the card was Secretary Wallace. His theme: Pan-Americanism is the best safeguard against dictatorships and "we now know there are nations which despise Democracy and which look with longing eyes toward this hemisphere." His blunt conclusion: "This challenge from the dictatorships of Europe caught us unawares. We lost for a time our common purpose, but now it has been restored. Europe, we thank...
Ninety-eight per cent of the tunes published by Tin Pan Alley (Manhattan's sheet-music publishing industry) are in 2/4 or 4/4 time. But when, once in a blue moon, a waltz (3/4 time) catches on, it usually leaves the best selling of its rivals trailing by laps. Most sensational Spanish-style waltz hit was a tune by Tunesmith Mabel Wayne called Ramona (1928). One of the biggest sellers in Tin Pan Alley's history, Ramona ended by piling up sales of two million copies...
...waltz Ramona in popularity. She had long been known as a composer of some 450 Spanish ditties and more or less serious concert songs, had reached grandmotherhood without seeing any of them create a furor. But last week, as Ti-Pi-Tin reached its fourth consecutive week as Tin Pan Alley's top seller, Grandmother Grever began to challenge Tunesmith Wayne's record...
...planes do not fly at night, but as beacons are installed and airports equipped for night flight, Imperial hopes to better its present slow time (average, 60 m.p.h.) between England and Australia, bring it closer to the 90 m.p.h. over-all time of its 50,695-mile route rival. Pan American Airways...
...Juan Terry Trippe, 39, smooth president of Pan American Airways, the American Arbitration Association's gold Medal for "promotion of international good will and distinguished service in commercial peace." Past recipients: Charles M. Schwab, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Harry F. Guggenheim...