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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...achieve this great end, the leading nations of this continent will one day have to come together in order to draw up, accept and guarantee a statute on a comprehensive basis which will insure for them all a sense of security, of calm-in short, of peace...
...Western Front. At this point Adolf Hitler figuratively vanished into the drapery behind him and a composite character made up of Aristide Briand, Ramsay MacDonald, Gustav Stresemann, Neville Chamberlain, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Cordell Hull suddenly took his place. The change of word and wind was nothing short of fantastic. Pacific, idealistic, hopeful, tenderly humane and sweetly vague, Herr Hitler turned his back on his old "Blood and Soil" act and began talking about war ending with "only losers"; about "millions of men uselessly sent to death and milliards of riches destroyed." He even made a short bow to free...
When up in New York's Harlem a short time ago, I wandered into a session at the Moonglow on 145th Street (highly recommended!) which had some of the best orchestra piano I had heard in a long time. Asked the guy where he learned his style, to which he replied, "My name's Willy Gans, I can sho' play a mess of piano, and I learnt it all from Fats Waller." The point about this whole business is that Fats just can't get hep to this modern school of frill pianists. Most guys playing today play...
...finest albums of jazz program music yet to be issued appeared a short time ago in the discs of Irving Berlin by Paul Whiteman. Whiteman has utilized to the highest extent his various instrumental ensembles, extremely capable vocal quartet, the Modernnaires, and singer Joan Edwards. Space won't permit discussion of each record, but the two albums, presenting some of the really great tunes of jazz ("Blue Skies," "Remember," etc.) are highly recommended...
...situation in the line is considerably better. Chief loss for Saturday's game is Barnes, who has been out with a pulled muscle all week. Into his place at right end stops Chester Jenks, whose chief short-coming seems to be lack of experience, a deficiency generally true of St. Paul's alumni because of their intramural sports policy...