Word: abandonments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became a force in Chicago, an intimate of Mayor Ed Kelly, and a park commissioner. He used these connections to "give service to the boys." He persuaded political candidates to abandon sound trucks for vanloads of live musicians during campaigns; he promoted municipally financed concerts in Grant Park. In 1939 he expressed his gratitude for this largesse with a concert honoring Mayor Kelly. In so doing he gave a dramatic demonstration of his own power. At his "suggestion," 23 band leaders, among them Paul Whiteman, Fred Waring, Tommy Dorsey and Kay Kyser, brought their orchestras to Chicago at their...
...press had howled: "The best skater lost. . . ." Last week at Prague, in the European men's championship, flashy young Button beat the man who had beaten him. Losing to Gerschweiler in the school figures, Button came from behind to clinch the title by his boldness and abandon in the free skating. That made him the first and last American title-holder (next year all non-European contestants will be barred). Said Gerschweiler: "The best...
Some long-range decisions had to be made, too. To hold on to North China, would the government soon have to abandon Manchuria entirely? In Nanking last week a government spokesman described the dilemma. Said he: "Two factors are involved-the government military position below the Great Wall and U.S. aid. If both are strong or positive, the government will fight not only to hold on but to reclaim all Manchuria. If either is weak or negative, the government will still fight to the uttermost. But if both are weak and negative, then full retreat from Manchuria may well...
...Dyer's questionnaire, and a similar investigation being underaken by the Middle States Association, find any considerable number of students out off from the sort of education they deserve, the colleges should move immediately to abandon the artificial distinction. They have examples of the feasibility of such a change. Stanford has gotten along without insisting on the choice system. So has Dartmouth, a college not noted, incidentally, for undergraduates who feel they would be happier at some other school...
Unless Americans breed with more science and less abandon, declared tireless Walter B. Pitkin (Life Begins at Forty), five generations from now they will be "the stupidest great-great-grandchildren of the stupidest great-grandchildren of the stupidest grandchildren of the stupidest children of parents now living...