Word: mckinleyism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something else on the ball, an intangible rhythmic sense that makes all the difference in the world between a good drummer and a lousy one. It's all right to play flash now and then. I get a lot of kicks out of a good technician like Ray McKinley when he takes off for twenty minutes while Will Bradley and the boys just sit around and watch. But don't forget that when they start playing again, Ray is right in there driving the band along, giving them a solid rhythmic foundation that you just can't learn...
...Young's tenor sax pyrotechnics, a vocal by Jimmy Rushing, and an Earl Warren alto chorus backed by clean muted brass. Reverse, The Apple Jump, is graced by a very delicate Basic piano solo (OKEH) ... Best Five O'clock Whistle of the week is by Will Bradley (COLUMBIA). Ray McKinley and Doc Goldberg scat their way through the novelty vocal, and Bradley takes a swell trombone ride with a tom-tom backing... Johnny Hodges steals the show on Duke Ellington's Warm Valley (VICTOR), a slow, dreamy tune, arrangement of which is remarkably unpretentious. Reverse, The Flaming Sword, says...
...glad to dispose of the Philippines and free themselves of their pledge to her. If the American people would only do a little reminiscing: in 1898 or thereabouts, in the White House, there was one soul who could not sleep for nights. The democracy-loving, civilization-exponent President McKinley was praying in pulsating ardor to his God to guide him in making a decision on what to do with a handful of verdant islands inhabited by 8,000,000 liberty-loving civilization-absorbent ethnological group. . . . [He] intimated American dishonorableness in returning the Islands to Spain, and cruelty in setting...
...minimum of 324 electoral votes ... the Republicans will capture at least 60 additional seats in the House. . . ." Pathfinder Poll (owner: Emil Hurja): "Willkie victory with 353 electoral votes ... he may get as many as 385. . . ." Joseph Dunninger (spiritualist investigator) : "Thomas Jefferson thinks Roosevelt is as good as in. McKinley says it's Willkie." Arthur Sears Henning (Chicago Tribune): "For Willkie, 280; for Roosevelt, 182; doubtful, 69." Wall Poll: "Roosevelt will win the popular vote, but . . . Willkie may win a majority in the electoral college." Senator George W. Norris: "If President Roosevelt is not reelected, Mr. Willkie will be elected...
Died. George Bruce Cortelyou, 78, old-time politician and financier; at his home in Huntington, L. I. Starting as a stenographer in 1883, he rose to be secretary of three successive Presidents (Cleveland, McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt), holder of three successive Cabinet posts under Theodore Roosevelt, manager of T. R.'s 1904 Presidential campaign, later president of Consolidated Gas Co. of New York. Said T. R.: "If I could only make you smile, George, I could make you President...