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...Rockaway in the days of Theodore Roosevelt. A genuine Morris chair, a cylinder phonograph, a pianola. Photographs of Olga Nethersole as Sappho, Ethel Barrymore in Captain Jinks, Maude Adams as L'Aiglon. First editions of When Knighthood Was in Flower and an autographed photograph of John Philip Sousa...
Unable to patch up the trouble with RCA was Chairman John L. Lewis of the Committee for Industrial Organization. Equally ineffectual was General Hugh S. Johnson, engaged by RCA as mediator. At first the strike was marked by nothing more violent than United Workers cheering pickets on with Sousa marches blared through a loudspeaker. RCA retaliated by playing raucous Victor records from a loudspeaker atop its plant. Music failed as a pacifier, however, when RCA began employing strikebreakers. Pickets jabbed girl employes with pins, hurled eggs filled with paint. From the factory non-strikers heaved back red pepper, hot metal...
...June 1 issue of TIME, under Letters, one of your correspondents speaks of J. Edgar Hoover as the only man of distinction born in Washington, D. C. What about the internationally known John Philip Sousa...
...years I have been endeavoring to correct, through the columns of The Etude, the ridiculous stories that Spusa's name was not Sousa, that he was born in Italy and his name was John Philipso and that when he came to the U. S. he added the initials U. S. A. to the initials S. O. and thereby derived the name of Sousa; or that he was born in Germany and his name was Siegfried Ochs S. O. and when he emigrated added U. S. A. and thereby acquired the name of Sousa. All of this is nonsense...
John Philip Sousa was born in Washington, D. C., Nov. 6, 1854. His father was a Spaniard of Portuguese descent who served in the U. S. Navy. His mother was born in the U. S. of Bavarian parents. Sousa was a most patriotic American. I knew him from the time I was 13 years of age until the day of his death, when he was a guest at my home...