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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CzechoSlovak Government, told the Anglo-U. S. Press Club : "I believe that out of the turmoil of Europe will come a better society . . . a new moral and political renaissance, which naturally will take a very long time . . . will result in the restoration of Czecho-Slovakia." Last week, Dr. Benes broadcast from London, hoping to be heard by Czechs and Slovaks: "Today the retreat from the tyranny of Naziism is ended! Your place, (Czechoslovak citizen, is today in the front line. . . . The Allied aircraft will often appear over your towns* and will bring you encouragement and assistance. . . . Do not submit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Refugees | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...many Germans noticed a two-line announcement in their papers one day last week that the Berlin radio station, which usually starts broadcasting at 6 a. m., would not be on the air until 12:30 that day. No reason was given, and under Nazi rule the people have learned not to ask or reason why, but the six-and-a-half-hour official radio shutdown-presumably for repairs-was seized upon by Germany's Freedom Station, a portable radio transmitter run by daring anti-Nazis who at the risk of their lives keep one jump ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Special Jokes Dept. | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Reich's war-will was being rapidly undermined. Finally, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop rushed to the Führer. It was not until 12:30, the hour when the Berlin station had been scheduled to go back on the air anyhow, that an official denial was broadcast from the Reich Chancellery itself-that is, from Adolf Hitler's own headquarters, which never before had stooped to deny a public rumor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Special Jokes Dept. | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Greater Boston's untold thousands of debating fans were foiled yesterday when they sat down to listen to a Harvard M. I. T. debate broadcast over WAAB and got transcribed music instead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Air Debate Falls Through As Teams Take Same Side | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

Driving through Boston, Mass., one James J. Behr listened attentively to a broadcast of Information Please, obediently shut his eyes when he heard Master of Ceremonies Clifton Fadiman ask the guest experts to shut their eyes and tell the color of their ties. The experts knew and the sponsors paid nothing. Mr. Behr, who also knew, hit the car ahead of him, paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Information | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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