Word: mckinleyism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maritime Union demanded war-risk compensation of $125 to $250 a month for sailors working ships outside the Western Hemisphere or in ports of the Western Hemisphere controlled by belligerents. Marine workers also demanded a 25% increase in the basic rate of pay. In Congress, Illinois's Everett McKinley Dirksen stormed that N. M. U. was Communist-controlled, declared he would introduce a bill to bring merchant crews under the jurisdiction of the U. S. Navy...
Captain Fran Powers of Harvard jumped to an early lead in the individual scoring race by winning both the 220 and 100-yard free style races. These two firsts gave him a total of ten points. Joe McKinley of Columbia, with a first, a third, and a membership on a winning relay team, amassed eight points. Tied with him for second place is Bus Curwen, Harvard Sophomore, who garnered a first and a second...
...Lonesome Road (Will Bradley; Columbia), for those who like a well-scored, well-recorded ride number with lots of drums (Ray McKinley...
...they blend with the vocal results is a kind of jazz you don't hear every day (COMMODORE) ... Ray Noble cuts two swell dance sides for COLUMBIA, Far Away and Sioux Sue. Both are original compositions by Ray, and show the fine melodic sense that produced Cherokee ... Ray McKinley's fireworks take the spotlight on Will Bradley's Lonesome Road (COLUMBIA). If you like flash drums you can't go wrong on this ... Latest Columbia reissues feature a Duke Ellington album, which includes classics like Drop Me Off At Harlem and Lazy Rhapsody, plus an article on the Duke...
Just ask a musician who his favorite drummer is. The answer will be "Jo Jones" or "Cozy" or "Ray McKinley," It won't be "Buddy Rich." That's for the boys with the crew haircuts and bow ties to whom nothing is music if it's not noise...