Word: phonographers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...also making a cinema short for Educational Pictures. A Negro Big Apple troupe was assembled in Harlem and the South, sent out to tour the U. S. with Ted Wallace's Swing Band. And two different tunes, both called The Big Apple, were on best-selling phonograph record lists of the week...
...saloons, roadhouses, poolrooms, drugstores throughout the U. S. are 300,000 coin-in-slot phonographs which play a record once for 5?. Having sold 175,000 of these in the past three years, phonograph manufacturers estimate that the boom will continue for 18 months, during which they will market 100,000 more. Because a saloonkeeper with a record machine does not require the services of even a beery "professor" at a piano, Chicago Musicians' Boss James C. ("Mussolini") Petrillo, in order to manufacture work for musicians, forbade his unionists to make any more recordings (TIME, Jan. 4). And haggard...
...before his death, by 45-year-old Hanna McNamara for breach of promise, the old man climaxed his career a few months later on an operating table when he refused an anesthetic, saying "You can't sell a Jew anesthetics or life insurance," had a nurse play a phonograph while he calmly smoked a cigar through the operation...
...Mine Curie-Joliot, eminent chemist daughter of the discoverer of radium. One completely round room exhibits the mathematical symbol pi (ordinarily figured as equal to 3,1416) worked out to such a length that the resulting decimal winds three times around the room. At intervals is heard a phonograph transcription of a short lecture by one of France's greatest mathematicians, briefly outlining a few of the countless facts which centuries of mathematical discovery and reasoning have amassed around the symbol...
...that Mary went the lamb was sure to go." Thus, as his father had done before him, and on the same spot in Menlo Park, N. J., recited Assistant Secretary of Navy Charles Edison, son of the late Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, into the straight horn of the first phonograph ever manufactured, as part of the cornerstone ceremony of an Edison "Tower of Light" monument, to be surmounted by a 13-ft. incandescent bulb...