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Precious supplies of tin, rubber, aluminum at the bottom of the ocean would leave us in a pretty position to follow Teddy Roosevelt's advice: "Speak softly and carry a big stick." We will speak softly all right if we permit Britain to go down, but Adolf will carry the big stick...
...night of May 13, beneath the potted palms of the Empire Room in Chicago's bustling Palmer House, veteran Bandmaster Jan Garber shuffled the sheets of his music, shook a stick at his first trumpet. A blast, and then, to the Jerome & Schwartz, 1903 ragtime tune Bedelia, Tin Pan Alley banged and tootled back onto the bigtime air. The broadcast was Mutual's first using ASCAP music after the last-minute signing with the songwriters' society in St. Louis (TIME...
Recently Indo-China has had an export balance in trade with Japan of as high as 13-to-1. The new treaty seemed likely to increase Japan's annual imports from 26,000,000 yen (1939) to 70,000,000 yen (including coal, corn, iron ore, zinc, tin ore, in return for which Japan would sell textiles, porcelain, manufactured goods). In addition, Japan will be allowed to defer payments for one year on the large supplies of rice she expects to buy. Rubber, which Japan sorely needs, was not specifically mentioned-neither was it specifically excluded...
This unhistorical observation serves well enough for a peg on which to hang another musical from the Zanuck cradle of history. Its pattern is familiar; the three principals rehearsed it almost to the letter in Tin Pan Alley (TIME, Dec. 9). But this time it curdles...
...never held his own press conference, never sent out his own press releases. Even after the President gave him the RFC chairmanship (which Jesse wanted to keep in his own collection of titles), Jones was still his boss. Schram's thwarted feeling probably mounted during the Bolivian tin negotiations, which Jesse handled in such a way that Bolivian tin is still not being commercially smelted...