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...ambition which comes upon many a citizen, especially when he is in his cups, is to lead a band. Most professional band leaders do not encourage these amateur impulses. But last week Leader Sammy Kaye, a smart, sandy, jug-eared young man whose slogan is "Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye," turned this yen to good account. When he was winding up a recent engagement at Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, Sammy Kaye had let the enthusiastic drunks go through the motions of leading his orchestra, awarded champagne to the best and funniest. Last week, on a tour of movie...
Like the rest of my generation I fell under the sway of that "splendid isolationism" that bred a distrust of capitalistic wars and patriotic oratory. Fortunately, I have had my eyes opened...
Most desirable to Italy are Egypt and the Suez Canal, the one rich in cotton, the other vital to reach Italy's present holdings in eastern Africa. Britain got sole sway over Egypt (which both Rome and Napoleon held in their day) in 1882 when France and Italy declined to share the expense of pacifying the country after it revolted against the extravagant grandson, Ismail, of able old Mehemet AH Pasha, who whipped the Turks. Toward these well-guarded objectives Mussolini reconnoitred but moved scarcely at all last week. He did launch an armored column to take Djibouti, French...
...Hibernian labor organizer, speaking on a program sponsored by the Harvard Peace Rally Committee, declaimed against the British imperialism which holds sway in India, South Africa, and Egypt as well as Ireland...
Jackson and a record of nearly twenty years service with the University, beginning as a janitor at Smith Hall in 1920, and later as head of Gore Hall, where he held sway until 1931. In this year Leverett House was completed and he took the office which he held until 1939, when he retired after a house dinner in his honor...