Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confusing pressure from the Townsend old-age pension element. Vermont, still Republican, can contribute only one piece of news to the election: if it should go Democratic it would signify that a fourth successive New Deal landslide had hit the nation. New Hampshire, a more sensitive indicator, needs to swing only slightly to revert to Republicanism...
Broker Dennis advocated severe penalties for radio stations permitting such swing raids. Immediate cause of this protest was a broadcast swing version of Bach's D Minor Toccata. Scolded indignant Mr. Dennis: "By no stretch of the imagination could such performances be tolerated except by people of no discrimination. If this is permitted to go unchallenged, swing renditions of the Mass in B Minor will follow...
Impartial observers reflected that if Bach's three-hour B Minor Mass could be played in a swing version it would be a triumph of Yankee ingenuity...
...Preludes was the famed "Flatbush." After listening to Cailliet's orchestration, the gloomy Rachmaninoff unbent, expressed himself as "happy" with the results. After the concert he unbent still further, told Philadelphia reporters he disliked swing but greatly admired the jazz of 15 years ago. "Ah," said Pianist Rachmaninoff, "if I could only hear that fine pianist, Eddy Duchin, playing Irving Berlin's Blue Skies, I'd be very happy...
...Negro vote is in Philadelphia-out of his immediate bailiwick-and in Pittsburgh much of the Negro vote is on WPA where it cannot easily be weaned from the New Deal. One acute Pennsylvania observer last week declared: "If I had a penny for every vote Vann can swing without Guffey pressure on the WPA, I could go to the movies...