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Thus, in 1915, Tin Pan Alley put to banal words & music the peacetime U.S. revulsion against soldiering. The words, if not the tune, still rattled around in the heads of U.S. military leaders. They wondered how soon after the Korean job was finished they would begin to hear the refrain again. For that reason, and because it was unwise to unfold all the facts of an unpleasant situation just before an election-and because no one had any clear-cut plan anyhow-the Administration talked all around the problem last week but never got to the truth. The truth...
Almost from the day when he scraped up enough money to buy a tin-plate plant, Ernest Tener Weir has fought the national labor unions. He continued to fight them as his tin-plate plant grew into the big Weirton Steel Co. of Weirton, W.Va. and Steubenville, Ohio. His policy was to pay his workers well; frequently he paid better than the rest of the steel industry. The last strike he had was in 1933. He did his bargaining with company unions...
RELIGIOUS MUSIC GETS BUILDUP AS SALES SOAR, squawked a headline in the show-business tradesheet Variety. Beginning with Our Lady of Fatima (TIME, Sept. 25), of which there are currently at least ten recordings, faith has become a popular subject on Tin Pan Alley. The "diskeries," as Variety calls the record companies, are hunting for new items...
...higher dollar prices for many of their raw materials (e.g., rubber, tin, wool...
...Corporation may consider the proposed revision of the Divinity School at its meeting Monday in Massachusetts Hall. No decision is expected tin the near future as the Corporation will probably weigh the case at great length before deciding whether to pass the revision on to the Overseers for final approval...