Interesting Facts 1941

 

-FDR secretly authorized the Manhattan Project to develop automic Energy for military purposes.

-Military service deferments for college students were eliminated

-There was a shortage of silk stockings due to the war in the Pacific

-The Willys General Purpose vehicle, or GP (to be known as the "jeep") was introduced by Bantam Car Co. in New York.

-Aerosol insect sprays went on sale in the United States.

Jelly Roll Morton born September twentieth 1885 at Gulf Port, New Orleans. He Died on July tenth 1941 in Los Angeles, California. During his life and World War I Jelly Roll was a very popular jazz artist (pianist). He toured with his own band named the Red Hot Peppers. One of Jelly Roll's famous works is the Jelly Roll Blues.

-The first municipally owned parking building in the U. S. was opened
Sept. 1, 1941, in Welch, West Virginia. It accommodated 232 cars and showed a profit the first year.

The genus Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia) had only been seen as a fossil and was thought to be extinct until a living tree was discovered in China in 1941

Mammoth Cave National Park was created in Cave City, KY 1941

The first quonset hut was built in 1941 at the Quonset Point Naval Air Station near Davisville, RI

 

Presidential Facts from all Times!

At his inauguration, Washington had only one tooth. At various times he wore dentures made of human or animal teeth, ivory or lead but never wood.

John Tyler was the president to have the most children. He had 15.

Andrew Jackson was the only president to have paid off the national debt.

Abraham Lincoln was our tallest president, standing at 6 foot and 4 inches.

Andrew Johnson was a self-educated tailor and the only president who made his own clothes as well as his cabinet's.

Jimmy Carter was the first president born in a hospital.

According to historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lyndon Johnson loved the soda Fresca so much he had a fountain installed in the Oval Office that dispensed the beverage, which the president could operate by pushing a button on his desk.

Gerald Ford, born Leslie Lynch King Jr., was once a male model.

President James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other.

The most common first name for a president is James: James Madison, James Monroe, James Polk, James Buchanan, James Garfield, and James (Jimmy) Carter.

All of the presidents have had a sibling.

Nine U.S. Presidents never went to college: George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Grover Cleveland, and Harry Truman.

Only 4 US Presidents were elected to the Presidency without having held a single elective office: Taylor, Grant, Hoover and Eisenhower.

Three presidents have been the sons of clergymen: Arthur, Cleveland, and Wilson

Has anyone ever asked you which presidents weren't born in the United States? It is a trick question. Eight of them, in fact, were not born in the United States, but in the original thirteen colonies before they were they United States. They were: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Jackson, and William Henry Harrison.

All U.S. Presidents have worn glasses, some of them just didn't like to be seen with them in public.

George Washington had to borrow money to go to his own inauguration.

The Adams' were the first residents of the White House. They moved in November 1800 while the paint was still wet.

When John Adams and his family moved to Washington to live in the White House, they got lost in the woods north of the city for several hours.

Thomas Jefferson's library of approximately 6,000 books became the basis of the Library of Congress. His books were purchased from him for $23,950.

James Madison was our smallest president, weighing 100 pounds, and standing 5 foot and 4 inches.

In the election of 1820, James Monroe received every electoral vote except one. A New Hampshire delegate wanted Washington to be the only president elected unanimously.

John Quincy Adams liked to take nude dips in the Potomac River almost every day.

At Andrew Jackson's funeral in 1845, his pet parrot had to be removed because it was swearing. Jackson is the only president to have also been held as a prisoner of war. This was during the Revolutionary War.

The term "It's O.K." came from Martin Van Buren, who grew up in Kinderhook, New York. After he went into politics, he became known by the nickname "Old Kinderhook." Soon people were saying "Is it OK?" reffering to Van Buren, and the word okay was derived.

John Tyler's second wife initiated the practice of playing "Hail to the Chief" whenever a president appears in public.

James K. Polk survived a gallstone operation at age 17 without anethesia or antiseptics. He spent only 37 days away from his desk during his four years as president

Zachary Taylor kept his old warhorse named Whitney on the White House lawn. People would pluck hairs from it for souveniers. Taylor chewed tobacco and was famous for never missing a spottoon when he spat. Taylor never held a political office before he was president.

Millard Fillmore established the first permanent library in the White House. Fillmore was the first president to have a stepmother.

Franklin Pierce was the first President to have a Christmas tree in the White House.

James Buchanan was the only president to never be married. When England's Prince of Wales came to visit the White House in 1860, so many guests came with him, Buchanan had to sleep in the halls!

Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be photographed at his inauguration. John Wilkes Booth (his assassin) can be seen standing close to Lincoln in the picture. Lincoln was the only president to receive a patent, for a device for lifting boats over shoals. Lincoln's brother, half-brothers, and brothers-in-law fought in the Confederate Army.

Andrew Johnson was drunk at his inauguration for Vice President. (His doctor had prescribed him some alcoholic medicine.)

Witness to some of the bloodiest battles in history, Ulysses S. Grant could not stomach the sight of animal blood - rare steak nauseated him.

Rutherford B. Hayes won the presidency by only one electorial vote. Hayes and his wife conducted the first Easter egg roll on the White House lawn.

James A. Garfield was the second president shot in office. Doctors tried to find the bullet with a metal detector invented by Alexander Graham Bell. But the device failed because Garfield was placed on a bed with metal springs, and no one thought to move him. He died on September 19, 1881.

Chester A. Arthur sold twenty-six wagons full of White House furniture for about eight thousand dollars. What he did not know was that the furniture was priceless.

The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth, not Babe Ruth.

When North and South Dakota were admitted to the Union, Benjamin Harrison covered the tops of the bills and shuffled them so that he could only see the bottom. He signed them and we will never know which state was the 39th or the 40th! He was the only president to be elected to two nonconsecutive terms.

McKinley was the first President to ride in an automobile. He rode in an electric ambulance to the hospial after he was shot. After being shot, he saw the shooter being beaten to the ground, he then cried, "Don't let them hurt him!"

Theodore Roosevelt had a photographic memory. He could read a page in the time it took anyone else to read a sentence.

Taft was our heaviest president, weighing 332 pounds. He once got stuck in the White House bath tub, so a new one was installed, big enough to hold four grown men!

An avid golfer, Woodrow Wilson used black golf balls when playing in the snow. His second wife, Edith, was a great-grandaughter of Pocahontas, seven times removed

Out of all the presidents, Harding had the biggest feet. He wore size fourteen shoes.

Calvin Coolidge, a man of few words, was so famous for saying so little that a White House dinner guest made a bet that she could get the president to say more than two words. She told the president of her wager. His reply: "You lose."

The Hoovers spoke in Chinese when they didn't want to be heard, the Coolidges used sign language.

By the time FDR's mother died, in 1941, FDR had presided over at least eight annual budgets of the largest fiscal entity on earth. Yet during her lifetime, Sara Delano Roosevelt did not entrust her son with managing the family's money because she did not think her son was up to the task.

His middle name is S. He said, "I was supposed to be named Harrison Shippe Truman, taking the middle name from my paternal grandfather. Others in my family wanted my middle name to be Solomon, taken from my maternal grandfather. But apparently no agreement could be reached and my name was recorded and stands simply as Harry S. Truman."

Eisenhower was the first president of all 50 states. He was the only president to serve in both World Wars.

John F. Kennedy was the first president to also be a Boy Scout. He was the youngest man elected president, but not our youngest president, Teddy Roosevelt was younger at the time of his inauguration.

Johnson and his wife, "Lady Byrd", were married with a $2.50 wedding ring bought at Sears. He rejected his official portrait painting, saying it was "the ugliest thing I ever saw."

Nixon was the first to address the Russians on Russian television. He was the first president to visit China while in office.

When Ford proposed to to his wife, he was wearing one brown & one black shoe. Ford was the first President to have been an Eagle Scout. Ford's daughter Susan held her senior prom at the White House.

In 1953 he returned to Georgia to take over the family peanut farm. He improved production and became a millionaire in the peanut industry by 1979. Carter was the first president sworn in using his nickname, Jimmy.

Bush was the first president to publicly refuse to eat broccli. Broccli farmers got mad and began sending truckloads of broccli to the White House. His wife, Barbara, accepted the broccli, but Bush said, "I am President of the United States and I don't have to eat it."

The only president to be head of a labor union was Ronald Reagan (how ironic). He was president of the Screen Actors Guild.

Bill Clinton is the only president ever to be elected twice without ever receiving 50% of the popular vote. He had 43 percent in 1992 and 49 percent in 1996.

 

About Jelly Roll Morton

A Great Early Jazz Composer
Jelly Roll Morton's claim that he was the "inventor of jazz" is an overstatement, but he was certainly a major influence upon its early development. "Black Bottom Stomp" is a fine example of Morton's style. Like many of his compositions, it is complex, with multiple sections, abrupt breaks or stop-time passages, frequent shifts in instrumentation, and a break-neck tempo. The ragtime influence is noticeable, but the complex melodic development points toward later stages in the evolution of jazz.
Morton liked to demonstrate his jazz performance style by performing the same piece twice, in two different ways: first, in ragtime style, using eighth and sixteenth notes of equal duration, and second, in jazz style, "swinging" the eighth and sixteenth notes.


"Black Bottom Stomp" in ragtime style

Jelly Roll Morton