Word: beginning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent Ethiopian war it was a Fascist, Marshal de Bono, who went out to begin a "Fascist conquest'' of this part of Africa. It was a prominent Monarchist, Marshal Badoglio, who, when the war bogged down under de Bono, was sent out, and ended the war as an "Italian victory." The King has always acted so as to give fullest scope to the energy and talents of II Duce, who has always acted with the greatest respect for Vittorio Emanuele III. Not long ago a Fascist official told of having suggested on a certain point that the Premier...
...House Naval Affairs Committee last week set May 16 as the day it will begin hearings on Representative Emanuel Celler's Pan American Broadcasting Station Bill. This measure would: 1) authorize the Navy Department to construct and operate a $700,000 Government broadcasting station (with $50,000 for annual maintenance) with power and equipment adequate not only for short wave broadcasting to South America but for the whole U. S.; 2) instruct the Commissioner of Education to provide programs of national and international interest, running the full educational and entertainment gamut covered by commercial broadcasters...
...with the Celler Bill hearings about to open in Washington this week, the QRX signal to stand by hummed through the U. S. radio industry. A more important fight than was ever put on the air-the match between the two great opposing philosophies of broadcasting- was about to begin. In this corner-the legislators and Government officials who look on radio as too vast and permeating a moral instrument to be left ungoverned by the body politic, too valuable a natural resource to be left free from State control. In that corner-the private broadcasters who have an estimated...
...copy. To acquaint the world with the strong joys of Nazi Germany, German propagandists get out an elegant monthly review published in six languages. Last summer, Robert Lange, an energetic young liberal journalist in Paris, decided it was high time for France and the other democracies to begin a similar crying of their wares. He took his idea to Edouard Herriot, who talked to Leon Blum. Government backing was promised. Last week, at a graceful little ceremony in Paris, Minister of Education Jean Zay welcomed a handsome new publication, Monde Libre (Free World), attributed its inspiration to President Roosevelt...
Slim Curtiss, who held the Lions hitless in the one inning he pitched in the first game Saturday before being replaced by a pinch hitter, is Coach Mitchell's choice to hurl today against Tufts. The game, with will be played at Soldiers Field, will begin at 4 o'clock. EASTERN INTERCOLLEGIATE BASEBALL LEAGUE STANDINGS W. L. PCT. HARVARD 6 2 .750 Yale 4 2 .667 Dartmouth 3 2 .600 Cornell 4 3 .571 Columbia 4 5 .444 Princeton 2 4 .333 Pennsylvania...