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...year round to anybody's music, although my weakness is Calloway. Want to be in on a secret? Yes?--'I'd give my best pal away for Calloway.' (Yeah, man!!). His music does something to me. I hear that 'swing' is going out of style. Darn it! (oops, pardon my French). What are your views on music and orchestras...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Men Jealous of Heroes Of Gridiron, Letter Reveals | 10/21/1938 | See Source »

...this queer situation is the Peasant Party, which must step up and vote if the November 6th election is to mean "national unity." Peasant Party henchmen promptly announced that their minimum terms were Government pardon for their leader, famed, rustic Wincenty Witos, who was jailed under the dictatorship of Marshal Pilsudski in 1930, escaped and fled to Czechoslovakia. Warsaw reports failed to reveal whether Marshal Smigly-Rydz is yet ready to have Wincenty Witos pardoned, recalled that Polish reactionaries attempted the assassination of persons who some years ago proposed this pardon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Unity for War? | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...rdenas radioration as its charter: that "the principal task of the Latin American working class consists in winning full economic and political autonomy for Latin American nations. . . . Fascism is opposed to the objectives of the proletariat and must be combated in all its forms." The Congress asked a pardon for Tom Mooney, cabled exhortations of "courage" to Czechoslovak workers and demanded independence for Puerto Rico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Capricorn to Cancer | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...pardon, I didn't see you in the shadows, I have a map, but I am altogether confused and I can't find Memorial Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

...read Rabble in Arms and Drums Along the Mohawk I've been unable to reconcile the haughty dames with the haggard, dirty, ragged, hungry and thieving horde that fought well but didn't put on half so good a show as we get today from its descendants. Pardon me while I go out and wave a red flag so our friends can call an indignation meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

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