Word: tanners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Germany had already counterbalanced this. The German Government had Finnish Commerce Minister Väinö Alfred Tanner wandering around Greater Germany. Ostensibly on a trade mission, he talked about "our German friends." The German radio reported that in Vienna he said: "Together with Germany ... we shall fight the battle for European culture to a happy conclusion...
...saying that they hoped Germany and Russia would annihilate each other, that both could go to hell. Fortnight ago no less a cog in the aid-to-Russia mechanism than sleek, sporting Minister for Aircraft Production Lieut. Colonel John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon was accused by Secretary Jack Tanner of the big Amalgamated Engineering Union of expressing just such sentiments...
Serious indeed was the report by President Jack Tanner of the leftist Amalgamated Engineers Union. Of 31 plane plants recently surveyed, he said, only six were working on full schedule. Reasons: shortage of tools and materials, delays in contracts, slipshod planning by managers. Said Tanner...
...ivory-billed woodpecker, rarest of U. S. birds, was considered extinct about 1926. But in the latest issue of Audubon Magazine Ornithologist James Taylor Tanner of Cornell estimated that some four & twenty of these birds still live in the loneliest swamps of Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina. Biggest U. S. woodpecker, the ivory-bill once ranged the southern primeval forest, eating larvae from recently dead trees. As the forest dwindled, so did the ivorybill, and Tanner gives it only a slim chance of surviving...
William Billings: American Psalms and Fuguing Tunes (The Madrigalists, Columbia: 6 sides; $2.75). One-eyed William Billings, Boston tanner and self-taught musician, wrote his "fuguing tunes" (not fugues but canons, like Three Blind Mice) for 18th-Century churchgoers. Long in disuse, Billings' choral works have been republished by Music Press Inc., a new Manhattan firm much of whose output is recorded by Columbia. Included in the album is Billings' chesty Chester, favorite of Revolutionary soldiers...