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Since 1800, the band has also given concerts. In the 18905, when John Philip Sousa headed it, the U. S. Marine Band became one of the best in the world. When Bandmaster Sousa quit to conduct his own celebrated outfit, the Marine Band's baton fell to an Italian named Francesco Fanciulli, who led it for five years. Since then it has had only two conductors, fiddle-playing, German-born William H. Santelmann and jovial, bespectacled, U. S.-born Captain Taylor Branson...
...Saposs speech was plainly Communism. Heartsick at this revelation, homesick for Orange, he walked the streets for hours that night, next day. Third day, he resigned in a letter charging that NLRB's "entire record is replete with rotten radicalism." He added that Mr. Saposs' lecture "was quite in keeping with your smelly Fansteel decision in which you sought to bestow a paternal benediction on sit-down strikes." Board Secretary Nathan Witt forthwith fired Mr. Davidson for his "false and scurrilous letter." This made Mr. Davidson really mad. "How can they fire me? I quit first...
...prefer to talk to Göring, rather than to listen to Hitlerian tirades. And the fact that the British Foreign Office always found him willing to listen accounts for the frequency with which his name is mentioned in talk of a new German regime, should Hitler fall (or quit) without pulling his whole house down around...
Golden Eggs? This was magnificent, so far as it went, but free Britons are fast learning what an appallingly short way ?300 millions go today in even the present "phony" (therefore "cheap") stage of World War II. Years ago the Nazis quit issuing Treasury figures, blindfolded the German people to what they were having to pay to get ready for Armageddon. Adolf Hitler boasted, when he entered conquered Poland, that this cost was 90 billion marks. He seemed to think that cheap. Economists shuddered...
...returning perennial was Rudy Vallée, who quit the air last September with the unique distinction of having been a top-ten favorite for nearly ten straight years (all for Standard Brands). Last fortnight Vallée returned for Sealtest dairy products with a completely revamped program, and a re-vitamined selling point: Vitalure, "abundant in good, fresh milk...