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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter he received from one Roger W. Mintone of Boston: "If the enclosed [a press clipping] represents your idea of the ethics of a guest invited to a private dinner?to broadcast tales about his host ?the suspicion that you are a charter member of the Great American Polecat Club seems amply confirmed. . . . Pretty sickening disclosure of the standard of honor of a Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Silver Flasks | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...ought to consign jazz to a hotter place than this earth. . . . It is bootleg music. Let us curb it; let us put it down; let us outlaw the thing! . . . The jazz hound is the musical bandit, running amuck. You can't purify a polecat. Let us try not to reform jazz, but to stamp it out-to kill it like a rattlesnake. Good music is one of the things that charm the soul in Heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Debate | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

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