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...that there would no longer be din with dinner. In Minneapolis, the late Glenn Miller's band, still among the big ten under Tex Beneke's direction, now had twelve strings (Miller's old swing band had none). Onetime circus Trumpeter Harry James, whose horn is shrillest of them all, had just completed a one-night stand swing around the East and found it necessary to cut his asking price from a guaranteed $4,000 a night to $2,000. In Manhattan, not one of the big hotels was featuring an ear-splitting swing band...
...went the strong man of his opposition : Minister of the Interior Luis César Perlinger, shrillest of the U.S.-haters, so nationalist that he could easily be taken for a Nazi. Stronger than ever was Colonel Perón, Minister of War and Secretary of Labor and Welfare, who now became Vice President as well. His new office was noteworthy because the Vice-Presidency had been General Edelmiro Farrell's last steppingstone to the Presidency...
...shrillest voice raised was that of Jennie Lee, onetime M.P. and wife of Labor M.P. Aneurin Bevan. Wrote Leftist Lee to the New Republic: "We over here are wondering what in God's name American diplomacy is driving at. We don't like Darlan. We don't like Franco. We don't like the idea of asking decent men to die if it is only in order to make a new Europe congenial to such as those. Justly or un justly, the American State Department is being given the credit for having brought to our side...
Bully. It was over a mix-up right in his own yard that Butch was shrillest and worst behaved. For years, colleagues and subordinates at City Hall had endured his bullying and abuse. Said Columnist Westbrook Pegler: "LaGuardia, in his years in office [has] . . . emphasized his vulgar irascibility, his bullying intolerance" and his inability to cooperate even with his own appointees...
...compare favorably with the minor novels of Sholom Asch. The worst that can be said is that much of it sounds as though it had been dictated by the Jewish Daily Forward's Editor Abraham Cahan, Author Singer's first U. S. sponsor and one of the shrillest critics of things Communist. In this story of an underdog, the hero is Nachman Ritter, son of a poor peddler. A Talmud student turned baker, Nachman is bewitched by an egomaniac Communist caricature, endures nine years' incredible persecution for his faith. Escaping to Russia, he is arrested, exploited, tortured...