I can never find this record, audio tape or cd, but they had a skit about the Liberty Bell in it. American Bell and Bell, it's got a crack in it as big as your arm.
The fact is that Pass used the same cheap bronze and a similar shape of bell, which cracked again within a century. He fucked up. It was known at the time how to cast a decent, large bell that would not crack, as had been done for numerous churches.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Freberg_Presents_the_United_States_of_America_Volume_One:_The_Early_Years
I can never find this record, audio tape or cd, but they had a skit about the Liberty Bell in it. American Bell and Bell, it's got a crack in it as big as your arm.
A broken cymbaal.
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Because the narrative about it was controlled by Jewish and local writers, like so much of the other nationalist propaganda at the time? For example, "the story regarding a Jewish foundry usually stems from the recasters themselves. John Pass (whose full name was John Pass Docksey) was an immigrant from Malta who came from a Jewish family. Though he was a brass founder, his hiring was actually a matter of necessity—he was simply one of the few local metalworkers in Philadelphia at the time capable of undertaking the massive recasting job."
The fact is that Pass used the same cheap bronze and a similar shape of bell, which cracked again within a century. He fucked up. It was known at the time how to cast a decent, large bell that would not crack, as had been done for numerous churches.
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