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Jimmy's personally written songs (he has copyrighted dozens) were at once a vigorous ribbing of Tin Pan Alley and a ragtime celebration of places and moods of significance to the daft composer. The titles included: I'm Jimmy That Well-Dressed Man; Who Will Be With You When I'm Far Away, Out in Far Rockaway? and Did You Ever Have the Feelin' That You Wanted To Go, Still You Have the Feelin' That You Wanted To Stay? I Know Darn Well I Can Do Without Broadway (Can Broadway Do Without...
...erect, well-dressed girls drawn up for parade. In the clammy English dawn, she saw WACs in maroon bathrobes (with boy friends' unit insignia sewn on their sleeves) dashing from tin barracks and scuttling across the mud-heading for the "ablution hut" to start the day with a shivery washup...
...working-class party of Bolivia, hated, feared and persecuted by the country's three great tin companies. It is called Communistic (any workers' party would be called Communistic in Bolivia). It has Communist members; it also has a clear anti-Fascist and pro-United Nations record. Its head is short, dark José Antonio Arze, once teacher at Williams College in the U.S., who has been living in exile in Mexico City. First he cabled Secretary Cordell Hull and Vice President Henry Wallace suggesting they withhold recognition until certain conditions were met by the Villarroel Government, then...
...government in Argentina, which turned out to be anti-Allied. Therefore Secretary of State Cordell Hull now moved with caution and suspicion on the question of recognizing the new Bolivian government. From the Department view, the deposed government of President Enrique Peñaranda, stooge of the tin-mine owners, had been satisfactory; after all, Bolivian tin kept flowing north, and that was the main thing. But from Washington came indications that the new government intended to cooperate fully with the U.S. The new government's "confidential agent" in Washington was Dr. Enrique de Lozada, onetime lecturer at Williams...
...Bolivia. The rebels dashed about in Lend-Lease jeeps, invaded the homes of Government leaders and dragged them off to prison. Pro-U.S. President Enrique Peñaranda was later exiled to Chile. His 80-year-old mother died of fright. Two of Bolivia's three great tin barons, Mauricio Hochschild and Carlos Victor Aramayo, went into hiding. The greatest, Simon I. Patino, was safe in the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, where he refused to answer the telephone...