35 research outputs found
Parc Dattractions: Expo 1937
45 p.; At head of title on front cover: Hommage Marguerite Long.; Contents: Autour des montignes russes by Alexandre Tcherepnine; Le train hant by B. Martinu; Souvenirs de lExposition by F. Mompou; La danseuse aux lions by Vittorio Rieti; Scenic-railway by A. Honegger; LEspagnolade by Ernesto Halffter; Le Gant by Alexandre Tansman; Un danseur roumain by Marcel Minalovici; Le Tourbillon mcanique by Tibor Harsanyi
Santa Lucia. (When the bright moonbeams.), LAddio a Napoli. Adieu to Naples, and Funiculi-funicula.
Contains three pieces of music: Santa Lucia. (When the bright moonbeams.), by G. Braga, arr. by G. Valisi, c1893 by Valisi & Giorgi; LAddio a Napoli. Adieu to Naples, by C. Cottovan, arr. by G. Valisi, c1893 by G. Valisi; Funiculi-funicula, by L. Denza, arr. by G. Valisi, c1893 by Valisi & Giorgi. Word for each song listed in front cover. MS notation on cover: To Maud from Mamma Mon., July 2 94. From the Fair. Midwinter Fair
Songs of San Francisco
48 p.; With an introduction by Evelyn Wells, famous California author, and a foreword by Frank E. Feliz, Director of Publications, Golden Gate International Exposition. At head of title: Souvenir song book of 1939 worlds fair on San Francisco Bay. On cover: Containing new and old California songs including: California, here I come; Illustrated with pictures of the exposition and latest views of the San Francisco Bay Area; Other Composers and Lyricists as noted: "California Here I Come" By Al Jolson, Bud de Sylva and Joseph Meyer; "Abalone Song" Verses by: George Sterling, Jack London, Ambrose Bierce, Gelett Burgess. Music adapted by: Sterling Sherwin; "Telygraft Hill" Words by: Wallace Irwin. Music by: John Milton Hagen; "The Ballad of Mr. Cooke" Words by: Bret Harte. Music by: John Milton Hagen; "Chinatown, My Chinatown" Words by: William Jerome. Music by: Jean Schwartz; "San Francisco Fog" Words by: Wallace Irwin. Music by: John Milton Hagen; "California, My Homeland" Lyric by: J. Keirn Brennan. Music by Ernest R. Ball; "Out San Francisco Way" Words by: Vincent Bryan and Sam Marley. Music by: Gertrude Hoffman; "A Chinatown Ballad" Words by: Wallace Irwin. Music by: John Milton Hagen; All other songs not noted, credited to Sterling Sherwin
Targeting China: U.S. nuclear planning and "massive retaliation" in East Asia, 1953–1955
This article assesses how the U.S. National Security Council, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Strategic Air Command (SAC)—devised highly classified plans for nuclear war against the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the period after the July 1953 Korean armistice. The Eisenhower administration was seeking to rely more heavily on nuclear weapons in East Asia. Important differences of opinion emerged during intra- and interagency debates on the matter. The Air Force's preference for nuclear operations aimed at the total destruction of the PRC's military-industrial potential clashed with the State Department's desire to retain allied support by avoiding mass civilian casualties through selective targeting. The expansive nuclear planning that was eventually undertaken was an Asian counterpart to the “overkill” usually associated with SAC's plans for general war with the Soviet Union during this era
