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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...place, your lod jazz band didn't have the arrangers (and consequently, the orchestral polish) that present-day bands have. Secondly, rhythm sections of the twenties were pitiful. They were jerky, heavy, and most of the time constituted a hindrance to the soloists and even the ensemble. Since the use of the hi-hat cymbals, however, jazz orchestras have attained a smooth quality to their rhythm sections, that really makes the band ride, rather than hold if back...
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...Pennsylvania, has had successful runs in 15 large U. S. cities. He announced he would appeal the Philadelphia decision to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and on up if necessary. Said he: "My interpretation of the Court's decision is that the Court has not fully realized that our use of the interpolated material from the German propaganda film, Baptism of Fire, was deliberately such as to transform a piece of Nazi propaganda into American propaganda of the clearest and most definite kind. We have gone on the assumption that the American public is not likely to be deluded...
With the implacable serenity of a man with a thesis who does not at all mind being a bore, Matthew Josephson continues to tell Americans that their administrators and respectable citizens are a bunch of crooks. He does not always use epithet. In a really crushing mood he just calls them politicians and businessmen. In The Politicos (1938) he exposed the politicians; the capitalists caught it in The Robber Barons (1934). This being election year, Historian Josephson explores the devious ways by which the electorate is hoodwinked while Presidents are made in smoke-filled rooms...
...Temporary sacrifices are preferable to permanent losses." If this nation had the same attitude toward war that the Crimson has, the freedom of press which its editors use so blindly would never have existed. Last Spring, I wrote you a letter on this war which, for some unexplained reason, you did not see fit to publish. I hereby make the attempt once more to see whether the Crimson really practices the democracy about which it talks so much. John F. Sciberling...