Word: plugger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Berlin first presented the song to Kate Smith, Manager Collins had the tune set to a martial rhythm, advised Plugger Smith to give it the works. Soon, God Bless America began to go to town, was widely heralded as a new national anthem. Forthwith it was suggested that the song be rendered as a hymn. After Collins had tried it out to a pious beat, he hastily returned to the original arrangement when complaints poured...
...Boys. Far from the workaday radio world of Mexico City are the med ical and moral border blasters who shove their way into the U. S. firmament from roaring stations on the Mexican border: Dr. John Richard Brinkley, the goat-gland wizard and Astrologer Rose Dawn, a bouncy blonde plugger for everything from perfume to religious tomes, who use the 180,000 watts of station XERA at Villa Acufia; until recently Norman Baker who used 50,000-watt station XENT, near Nuevo Laredo until the U. S. Government convicted him for using the mails to de fraud...
...very much his father's son and he had yet to prove his own worth. A member of one of the Oxford University debating teams, he still was to win his spurs in the hard school of the House of Commons. He quickly became known as a quiet plugger rather than a brilliant go-getter. He looked more like an office boy than a Cabinet member. His chief virtues were patience and calm...