Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pardonably forgotten was the existence of a Catholic priest who after the 1936 Democratic landslide promised to refrain from "all radio activity in the best interests of all the people": Detroit's Rev. Charles E. Coughlin. Last week Father Coughlin, back on the air again for the last three months, was scheduled to speak on Sunday afternoon. When he had done so, it was apparent that if the U. S. press and the U. S. Congress had forgotten him, there were plenty of radio listeners who had not. Roared the frantic radio priest against the Reorganization Bill: "It will...
...Representative Finly H. Gray for the first of a series of addresses on money and depression. "Mr. Speaker and fellow members of Congress," hopefully began gaunt, gold-toothed Representative Gray, who had informed his colleagues by letter and in the Congressional Record of his intention to take the air to harangue them at greater length than even his spectral appearance has ever induced them to listen to him from the floor...
...colleagues gave ear to Representative Gray on the air, they rose neither in rebuttal or acclaim when the House next convened...
Since this blocking of the Japanese came two weeks after the Imperial Government launched their big spring offensive to take Suchow, the checkmated Japanese War Machine was so far behind schedule last week as to stand disgraced, particularly since at all times the Japanese have had command of the air. Every Chinese was fit to burst with pride. Over-optimistic Chinese newspapers predicted the Japanese will now be driven back upon Tsinan. One who knows the real situation is Mme Chiang Kaishek, "Wife of 1937," who is at Hong Kong while her husband, Generalissimo Chiang, directs the desperate resistance...
With all kinds of summer plans floating in the air, it is not unduly sanctimonious to consider the Harvard Summer School as a worthy and useful way to spend a part of the vacation. The Summer School is an important part of the University, and one gravely misunderstood by the undergraduate, who thinks of it as a sultry Devil's Island where one is sent for scholastic bad behaviour. In reality the six weeks spent here can prove extremely valuable to students in good standing as well as their less fortunate brethren...