“That's the conditions that prevail!”

— Jimmy Durante

As quoted in Current Biography : Who's News and Why (1946) by Anna Rothe, p. 168 http://books.google.com/books?id=_fIpAQAAMAAJ&q=%22That's+the+conditions+that+prevail%22&pg=PA168#v=onepage

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American jazz singer, pianist, comedian and actor 1893–1980

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