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Word: trumpeter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Overgrown Bureaucracy. On a bigger front, New York's tough old trumpet-voiced John Taber (R.) proposed an amendment that sent shivers running up & down the spines of Washington's bureaucracy. Taber proposed that Congress cut 200,000 employees off Government payrolls; reduce travel allowances by 20% for civilians, by 5% for the military; reduce allotments for Government transportation by 10%, for communications by 10%, for printing by 10%, for contractual services (e.g., law work, special expertizing, etc.) by 10%. Taber estimated his amendment would save $600 million. Not to be outdone, Iowa's big Ben Jensen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Into the Jaws | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...cashing in on his gift of gab by putting it onto paper. With three Armstrong articles due for publication in the U.S., he was also pecking away at an autobiography. A sample of loose-jointed Armstrong prose (and his own weird punctuation), as free & easy as his New Orleans trumpet, tells how he gave a young Italian singer a boost on his European tour last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music Is Music | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...city's founders, pint-sized ("Boy, was he a shrimp!") Auguste Chouteau. As the children listened to the story of St. Louis' great fire of 1849, they clambered over the old fire engine, tried on the old derby-like helmets, shouted through the trumpet megaphones used by the fire vamps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: History to Touch | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Manhattan recording studios last week were rocking to the loose-jointed two-beat tempo of slap bass and honkytonk piano, the syncopated blast of gutbucket trumpet, tailgate trombone and high-flying clarinet. The record industry, with a gleaming eye on a trend, was climbing back aboard the Dixieland bandwagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dixieland Bandwagon | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

Come on fellows, give us a break, let's hear about Harvard and let Radcliffe do its own trumpet-blowing. Harold G. Lustig...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe in the CRIMSON | 3/28/1950 | See Source »

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