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Sympathetic British editors were outraged when George V, Queen Mary and Edward of Wales were burlesqued at the tryout in Philadelphia of the new Sam Harris-Irving Berlin-Moss Hart "musical satire," As Thousands Cheer...
...Royal Family, living or dead, can be portrayed on the stage. When London's News Chronicle telephoned Producer Harris in Philadelphia he snapped, "What's the matter with you people? . . . We just don't regard it as bad taste!" Theme song of As Thousands Cheer is an inflationist ditty "Uncle Sam Will be in Heaven when the Dollar goes to Hell...
...passengers were corralled in the main saloon at 5 a. m. To the wallowing Madison went the Coast Guard destroyer Upshur which oiled the tossing water, convoyed the steamer at 1½knots into Norfolk 24 hours late. Debarking passengers sent up a great cheer for Captain Heath's steady seamanship...
...mighty cheer was his answer. The local leaders trooped out to their men, ordered the last 12,000 of them back to work on the morrow. Picket lines melted away. Governor Pinchot recalled his guardsmen from the coal fields. NRA was safely over its biggest hurdle to date...
Amid storms of laughter signs were hung on the Palace door reading "Vacant" and "For Rent." Thousands of mobsters, unable to crowd indoors, tore up palm fronds in the Palace gardens, marched off waving them in triumph. Some stopped at the U. S. Embassy to cheer Ambassador Welles who promised "continued mediation " declared that "Cubans are solving their own problems," begged for "control and calm...