Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Resourceful Dr. Goebbels at once got out phonograph records of the speech in which President von Hindenburg asked Germans to vote Ja in the last plebiscite. when the issue was Adolf Hitler's break with the Disarmament Conference and the League of Nations (TIME, Nov. 20). From this record appropriate excerpts were transferred to a new disk for broadcasting, and all last week the dead Hindenburg campaigned for the live Hitler...
...until Pittsburgh, as normally Republican as Mecca is Mohammedan, threw out its corrupt and long-lived G. O. P. machine last autumn (TIME, Nov. 20, 1933). Lawyer McNair happened to be the Demo cratic candidate. Pittsburgh Democrats say of their Mayor: "We voted for a machinegun but got a phonograph record...
...advertising manager of Cascarets offering a contract (TIME, May 29, 1933). "Home on the Range" has worked hard for radio since then. Kay Francis kept singing it to Edward G. Robinson in I Loved a Woman. Baritone John Charles Thomas was one of several to put it on a phonograph record which lately reached a Mr. and Mrs. William Goodwin in Manhattan Beach, Calif. William Goodwin, a onetime cowboy who now runs a hay, grain & feed business in Tempe, Ariz., claimed that he and his wife wrote the song, called it "An Arizona Home" and had it copyrighted when they...
...Irving Berlin would be the last to admit it. But the two are reconciled. When time allows they have dinner together once a week. And Grandfather Mackay takes pride in the two Berlin children: Linda Louise, 2; and Mary Ellin, 7, who hears her father's broadcasts on phonograph records because the Gulf Oil programs go on after her bedtime...
...Franciscans flocked to their M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, gaped in perplexity at a visual interpretation of Tannhauser music executed in ink by Tennistar Helen Wills Moody. Some San Franciscans: "Chicken tracks!" Said Mrs. Moody on how she got started on her in terpretations: "I played a phonograph record. ... I had a pencil in my hand and unconsciously I traced a pattern of the rhythm." Convicts in the educational department of California's San Quentin Prison voted as the most outstanding woman in public life Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, then hung an oil painting...