Word: webbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Richard Webb Sullivan...
...Webb and Sullivan in answer argued that the New Deal benefitted the American people as members of the economic system, that it remedied old conditions of abuse. In proving their stand that Roosevelt's program was beneficial, they pointed to the relatively prosperous years between 1933 and 1937 when the program was in effect. Moreover, the present slump would have been worse, they said, but for the remedial legislation advocated by the New Deal...
...Swing is here to stay." That was the verdict handed down last night by Harlem's Chick Webb, whose orchestra is currently at Levaggi's uptown Flamingo Room, and Ella Fitzgerald, his nineteen year old vocalist...
That incident marked the beginning of the band's rise to recognition. "Breaks count a lot in this game," Webb put it. "Some of the best bands going are ones that you never hear about, just because they haven't had the breaks...
...Richard Webb Sullivan...