Word: whats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some sample questions posed are: "What brand of coffee did you buy last?", "Have you ever bought beer in cans for home use?", "Do you think favorably of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation?", and "How many babies are there in your family?"
What he meant of course was that Barnet's outfit manages to play more colored style jazz than anybody else in the country. I'm not too sure that I agree with this. Barnet's band has many faults; but it is perfectly true that he has an unusual idea...
What he is trying to do basically is to imitate Duke Ellington. Several years ago, before Barnet bad formed his present band, I heard him play, and even then he was trying to imitate the Duke's ideas. He told me then that he felt that Ellington was the greatest...
Then there was this affair about changing some U. S. ships to Panama registry so they could sail into war zones. Vag had just about made up his mind that this was hedging, and exactly the wrong thing to do to stay out of war. After all, Mr. Hull thought...
But wasn't the new Neutrality Act meant to fix all these questions? Vag had been reading headline after headline about how Congress was thrashing out a new bill that would take care of everything and keep us out of war, and then he read that it was passed by...