Word: blum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...HARRY BLUM...
...week's 2½hour inaugural broadcast from the stage of Carnegie Hall saw WFDR off to a razzle-dazzle start. Congratulatory messages came from India's Pandit Nehru and Chile's President Gonzalez Videla, Italy's Premier de Gasperi and France's Leon Blum. There were Verdi arias and Rooseveltian folksongs (Ballad for FDR, The Face on the Dime), and jokes by Milton Berle (see PEOPLE). Big business was represented by RCA's David Sarnoff, the Armed Forces by General Walter Bedell Smith, Government by FCCommissioner Frieda Hennock and New York City...
Dalton Trumbo and Adrian Scott, screen-writers who were then under indictment for contempt of Congress, were barred from an April 20, 1948 meeting. They were scheduled to talk on civil liberties. A meeting on civil rights, set for January 17, 1949, with Communist Party official Emanuel Blum as speaker, was also not allowed...
...Blum meeting, the administration put it in the category of programs "which took on the character of partisan maneuvering," and lacked "educational value...
Swimming: letters: Grace Anthony '49, Virginia Gossard '49, Valentine Loring '52, Patricia McMillin '50, Elizabeth Moses '51, Martha Sherich '51. Numerals: Alice Blum '52, Elinor Gossard '51, Cherry Merit...