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...standby" system, by which outside union men playing in its radio stations must either join the union local or pay a thumb-twiddling local musician to stand by. Jimmie Petrillo forbade Chicago men to make phonograph records which might be broadcast. He saw to it that political campaign trucks resound with live musicians, not recordings. When a giant panda was to be welcomed by a troop of Chinese Boy Scout buglers, Petrillo demanded that eight union men be hired as well. Italian as were his sympathies, he hit the ceiling when the Italian Consul arranged for amateurs to play...
...that if our community is to experience a resumption of prosperity . . . such resumption can only come when ... the proud plumes of smoke from the eager fires of our industries are backward blown, when our forests ring with the harmonious din of the woodsman's ax, when our mills resound with the melodious hum of whirling saws, and when the flockmaster and the cattle man, who tend their flocks and herds beneath the wintry stars and scorching summer sun, and when the tiller of the soil, who tickles the earth with the plow that she may laugh forth her golden...
...York City, every week, some 30,000 people attend meetings which Jews do well to avoid. At the meetings, held by groups with names like "Christian Front" and "Christian Mobilizers," the streets of upper Manhattan and The Bronx resound with cries of "Buy Christian," "Down with the Jews," "Wait till Hitler comes over here." Only the left-wing press has paid much attention to these gatherings, although in recent months they have resulted in more than 250 arrests and some 85 actual and suspended sentences. (Example last week: Patrick Kiernan, 38, reliefer; three months in the workhouse for an anti...
Hear our praise resound...
Just before he died in 1827 he drew a sketch of his wife, who always called him "Mr. Blake." Dying, according to Mrs. Blake, "he began to sing Hallelujahs and songs of joy and triumph, loudly and with ecstatic energy. His bursts of gladness made the walls resound...