Word: sways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carmen Cavallero, well-known interpreter of the South American Sway, and his orchestra, will entertain for the S-0s of the Harvard Naval Training School as the Coca-Cola "Spotlight Band" radio program hits Boston next Friday evening...
...Side clubs, being choosy about the guests. The Village is booming also. Only the smoke-filled, low-ceiled jazz spots that sprang up while Manhattan had swing fever are (save for one or two like Kelly's Stable) on the syncopated skids. People want soft tunes they can sway to and old favorites they can hum. Most ubiquitous new song: Cole Porter's torchy-chornya You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (best sung by the Riobamba's fresh-voiced Frank Sinatra...
...Crawford once said no businessman can make a speech because the field "has been abandoned to crackpots, reformers, politicians, nonproductive drones who live on our backs and sway public opinion by silver-tongued fireside bunk." But last week in Manhattan Businessman Crawford ate his earlier words in his maiden speech as N.A.M. president. Said...
...this hullabaloo the Forest Service had one further talking point that may sway Layman Roosevelt to rule in its favor. The only obvious way to prove whether or not the popguns can rescue the nation from the threatened lumber shortage is to let them try. If a way can also be found to give the big mills more labor and machinery, that would be just so much more gravy...
Newspapers are not always careful about their unbridled ability to sway opinion, and so sometimes yield to the temptation to shade the truth to their desires, PARTICULARLY AROUND ELECTION TIMES. In such times the public has little redress, but if the abuse goes too far, the liberty of the newspapers will one of these days likewise be curtailed. Democracy acts this...