Word: themes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...World's Fair, for which ground was broken on the Flushing, L. I., meadows last week, Clevelanders boasted that their Exposition had taken just So days to build, that every nail was in place for the opening. Supposedly the Exposition centered around the Romance of Iron & Steel, theme selected to typify the eight Great Lakes States...
...words were pronounced by the orators of over 50 nations. Of these Premier Leon Blum of France, new to Geneva, drew the most eager audience for a speech which rose entirely above Italy and Ethiopia, a land which Orator Blum succeeded in mentioning only once. There was no one theme in Premier Blum's discourse, but there were many themes, and he sounded them like an organist pulling out random stops here & there with a not unmelodious effect. "The world is filled with menace. The shadows grow heavy," cried Leon Blum. "Mystery enshrouds the armaments of certain States. . . . They...
Whether or not he is elected 33rd President of the U. S., squinty-smiling Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas was last week indelibly imprinted upon his countrymen's memory as The Man Who revived the tune Oh! Susanna as a national theme song. In the course of six days at Cleveland, bands at the Republican National Convention played Oh! Susanna 1,800 times by official count. Into a class with The Sidewalks of New York and California, Here I Come passed the old banjo ballad written by Stephen Foster nearly 100 years ago and first sung into...
...theme song of the Spanish-American War, A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, lent itself naturally to the 1904 campaign of Theodore Roosevelt, but eight years later, for his Bull Moose campaign at "Armageddon," his marching song was Onward Christian Soldiers. In the intervening campaign, won by Taft in 1908, his lady admirers sang: Taft for Me, Taft for Me to the tune of Tammany. Woodrow Wilson scorned campaign songs, but in 1916 he was forced to listen often to I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier...
Senator Borah by no means makes an ideal candidate, but he does have ideas worth incorporating into the party program. His theme song, and indeed he sings little else, is a dirge of hate directed at monopoly in all its forms, particularly the big-industry and labor-union privilege and the farmer privilege which the NRA and AAA represented. Ideas of this sort go at a premium. It may even be hoped--now that the Democratic Party has in effect defaulted upon its free-trade principles--that the high tariff mania and its favoritism to special groups may be modified...