Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seem to be getting used to crises regarding European matters just now. There seems to be tension all over-but everybody is quiet about it-and we still get the weather forecast on the wireless before the news...
...least one white rabbit a year out of his fine high hat was produced by Franklin Roosevelt in the first five years of his Administration, to solve and save the U. S. economy. For his sixth year, with some 11,000,000 workers still jobless, the Budget still reeling, the President appeared to have lost his urge for new projects. Nonetheless, his advisers persuaded him to try at least a grey rabbit: revision of corporate taxes deterrent to Business. Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins heralded it, Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau nursed it after Undersecretary John Hanes bred and produced...
...called operators and miners to the White House. As a prelude to ordering them to reach agreement (see p. 20), he reminded them that a lot of his family's money came from coal. His rich Grandfather Warren Delano had anthracite holdings in eastern Pennsylvania, where there is still a ghost town named Delano. As a young husband in 1908 he rode horseback with his uncle, another Warren Delano, over the Cumberland ridges of Virginia to inspect bituminous properties in Kentucky's Harlan County, later to be called "bloody" for its bitter strikes and brutal strikebreaking. His point...
Speaking from the technical standpoint, there is no doubt one of the finest. Though every music magazine in the country has taken a shot at explaining his "Apple Annie" method of blowing out his checks while playing (distinctly unorthodox), or panning him for it, the still true that he has good tone and really gets around on his horn...
...Sockette and the Bouncing Brass. Seems to me the latter should have been called the Soothing Sliphorns, but at any rate the sides have more of the excellent dance time that the others did, with some trick double time measures. . . Merry Macs in "Chinatown" show themselves to be still the best vocal ensemble group around...