Word: b
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steeves's words were greeted with howls of "Shame! Shame!" Up rose B. C.'s Premier Thomas D. Pattullo to chide her-and incidentally to prove that antitotalitarian nations must adopt semi-totalitarian methods to achieve their ends: "I am sorry at the honorable lady member's attitude, and appeal that no other member of this House give similar utterances. It is fortunate she is living in a country where tolerance is enjoyed. I doubt if she would be allowed such latitude in her native Holland. If such words are again uttered, I shall have to advise...
...broke down and offered to spy for France. They sent her to Belgium to work on General Moritz von Bissing, the German military governor. She proceeded from there to London where she told the British Intelligence Service she was in France's pay to spy on Britain. The B. I. S. advised her to stop, let her go to Spain, where she was soon seen again in the company of German agents. They sent her back to France and there, in 1916, the French caught her with Germany's check for 15,000 pesetas...
...networks generally restrict these serials to daytime hours, reserving the night air for classier stuff. Recently B-S-H tried to place transcriptions of some of its cheaper CBS and NBC serials, like Stella Dallas, Backstage Wife, etc. on small stations for night-time broadcasting. One prospect was Elliott Roosevelt's 24-station Texas State Network. But when Elliott and Blackett tried to get permission to take transcriptions of the shows off NBC and CBS wires, they got a royal runaround...
...Roosevelt's venture, is scheduled to go into business Jan. 1 with some 100 stations. All last week at The Blackstone in Chicago, the lure of Elliott's name, plus the promise of some 60 hours a week of steady if cut-rate business, kept customers coming. B-S-H had already contracted for 15 premium night-time hours a week; Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp. scheduled its noisy commentator, Elliott Roosevelt himself, on Transcontinental. Dorothy Thompson was courted; Boake Carter and Father Coughlin were possibilities. There were no such headliners as Jack Benny, Charlie McCarthy or Kate Smith...
...addition to the regular performances last year there was a talk by Cecil B. DeMille, and this year another movie celebrity such as Frank Capra or James Cagney is expected to speak...