Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publisher, theatre owner and now a director of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission. Beside him marched beaming, grey-haired George Michael Cohan, famed flagwaving actor, producer and songwriter. After presenting Mr. Cohan to the President. Congressman Bloom elaborately explained that the author of "Over There" had composed a new song to be used officially by the commission for its nation-wide celebrations next year. Declared Mr. Cohan: "The name of my song, Mr. President, is 'Father of the Land We Love.' I wrote it for the American, people. Here, Mr. President, I want you to have the very...
...President Hoover, no musician, took the sheet and glanced over it, Congressman Bloom hurried on to explain that he was not trying to "plug" the song by White House publicity because "Father of the Land We Love" was not to be sold commercially but was to be distributed free throughout the land by the Federal Commission for 1932 singing. However, after leaving the President's office, Mr. Bloom stopped in the White House press room, stepped up beside a bust of George Washington, and began to sing the first verse...
They sing their song of Washington
...crowd retreated, relieved its feelings by tossing bricks through the windows of the Casa del Pueblo (founded by Ibanez). Then it gathered in front of the home of Miguel Letelier who had been suggested in the evening papers as Minister of the Interior, and set up a sing-song chant, "Don't join the Cabinet! Don't join the Cabinet...
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