Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan that afternoon the Board of Estimate wasted no time in effecting much-needed savings in a city budget unbalanced to the tune of $31,000,000. The bill permitted the board to slash the city's expenditures some $13,000,000 by salary reductions, furloughs, consolidation of departments, abolition of useless jobs, of which 1,010 were abolished at once. What made the bill seem a puny thing to the Mayor was that such populous and politically potent city departments as Transit and Education had been exempted by the Legislature from pay cuts and reorganization...
...that it wildly distorts a well known nursery story. This is Disney license. But Disney license is not enough to explain why Frank Churchill, who scored The Three Little Pigs, was not required to compose new music for The Big Bad Wolf. The piglets still pipe the tune by which 1933 will be remembered though by now they should be as tired of it as the rest of the U. S. The wolf, an equally good entertainer, has no song at all. No Greater Glory (Columbia), adapted from Ferenc Molnar's novel Paul Street Boys, is a war picture...
Prescott Browning Wintersteen '34, of Uxbridge, contributed the accepted hymn, which is to be sung to the tune of "Duke Street." The words are as follows...
...last week. Policemen on the corners smiled right round the chin straps of their helmets. Down the cobbled street came the sharp squeal of bagpipes. Four hundred workmen, their tool bags slung over their shoulders, tramped behind the pipers and gaily sang "The Cunarder's restarting!" to the tune of "The Campbells are Coming." Through the gates of the John Brown Shipyard they went, and other workmen, busy on the 8,000-ton motorship for the New Zealand trade and several other ships, cheered them as they passed to a great hull which for two years has been...
...Alfred E. Smith called (by proxy) for State support of schools, warned against Federal control. Wrote he: "It is axiomatic in American Government that control follows support. Men may cry Federal aid without Federal control but so declaring does not determine the outcome. . . . Whoever pays the fiddler calls the tune...