Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strang to carry its latest message to Moscow in the tiresome seesawing of Anglo-Soviet bargaining. Though Russian vanity was nicked because Prime Minister Chamberlain did not visit the Kremlin in person, observers of practical Diplomat Strang's busy career (companion of Captain Anthony Eden on his 1935 swing through Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, Prague; translator for Hitler and Chamberlain at Berchtesgaden, Godesberg, Munich; British charge d'affaires in Moscow during the difficult spy trial of the Metropolitan-Vickers engineers) thought he had a better chance than bigwigs to find the elusive formula, clinch an Anglo-Soviet agreement...
...Home Consumption. Through most of this williwaw, one man who kept his head screwed on was MBS's Commentator Raymond Gram Swing, an oracle in England because he speaks plain English in weekly BBC broadcasts from the U. S. to 1,000,000 British homes. Officially summing up for the BBC on Saturday, Commentator Swing told Great Britain...
...must have considered U. S. terms. The Daily Mirror's, lead article began: "The land of amazing parades saw its most astounding ever when the King and Queen drove through 600,000 whooping, cheering Americans to the White House." The crowds sang God Save the King in swing time, the Mirror reported, adding that Americans greeted the visitors with shouts of: "Hiya, King, what about a little hustle...
...Large from the "New World" Symphony Dvorak *Irish Tune from County Derry Grainger *"Finlandia," Symphonic Poem Sibelius Pastorale and Procession Langendoen (Conducted by the composer) *Symphonic Variations, for Piano and Orchestra Franck Soloist: Elizabeth Siedhoff *"By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Strauss *"Bach Goes to Town" (A Fugue in Swing) Templeton *"Washington Post," March Sousa...
...these, Baldwin would still be in deep Depression but for the accident of geography that established Baldwin on tidewater, and the shrewdness of former President Samuel Vauclain, who bought 61% of Midvale Co. in 1926. For well over half of Midvale's business-U. S. armament-does not swing with the ordinary cycles of depression, is bringing Baldwin Locomotive as close to the black as it can come when U. S. railroads are deep in the red. For Midvale is a specialist in pressing armor plate and forging heavy gun barrels from high-grade steel...