Word: inserts
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...players. The musicians evidently under-sold their French competitors by importing music, into the country without paying a tariff duty on it, and were properly reprimanded for doing so. If jazz is really the national spirit expressed in music, then those plaintive ditties about "going home my mammy in (insert name of)" should be changed to have home time with capitol dome, and mammy can be the White House cook. This will at once place jazz on the proper national footing. A now Cabinet position must be created immediately, with Irving Berlin as the bearer of its portfolio-saxophone...
...White House. He pointed out that for the sake of amicable relations with Japan, the State Department would need some time in which to abrogate the "Gentleman's Agreement" (under which Japanese immigration has been regulated) and to smooth matters over diplomatically with Japan. He induced them to insert in the conference report of the bill, a provision that the exclusion feature should not become operative until March...
Moscow: "Give us a short history of Lenin's life and sayings that we may insert it in the place of the Gospel." Nadejda Constantinovna Krupskaya, Lenin's widow, answered thus many of her numerous messages of condolence: "Let not your deep, abounding grief be expressed in outward honors for Lenin's personality. Monuments to his name and sumptuous ceremonies-all that in his life he valued so little, found them all so tiresome. Remember how much poverty and lack of order yet exist in our country. If you want to honor Lenin's name build...