Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japan groped for a way to meet total disaster. In a "personal message," broadcast by Radio Tokyo, Emperor Hirohito told his people that they faced a crisis "unprecedented in scope in our national history...
...British Government offered an
administrative bolus to its No. i political ward case-India. From his
palace in New Delhi, Field Marshal Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India,
broadcast a new proposal to break the country's three-year political
deadlock and put her "on the road to self-government." In London,
Leopold Amery, Secretary of State for India, announced the proposal to
an approving Parliament. High points:
Sunshine Barn Dance broadcast, featuring the Governor and his hillbilly band...
This sennet on the wreathed Tory horn electrified Britons who had all but forgotten, during his five years of wartime Parliamentary speeches, what Churchill can do at the cry of partisan tallyho. Cried Labor's startled Daily Herald: "Crazy broadcast." Cried the Communist Daily Worker: "Conscienceless demagogy." Cried Labor Leader Herbert Morrison (lately Prime Minister Churchill's Secretary of Home Affairs): "Abusive scurrility." The Conservative Yorkshire Post (part owned by the family of Mrs. Anthony Eden, whose husband last week was ill of a duodenal ulcer) was solidly metaphoric: "Mr. Churchill went into action with all the flash...
...cost some $5,000,000 (largely donated by the Rockefellers), and is one of Manhattan's sightseeing land marks. Fosdick's Sunday morning sermons, delivered from a marble pulpit, attracted capacity (2,500) congregations. Millions more heard his Sunday afternoon sermons, broadcast over a national hookup from his 18th-floor tower study. He received 125,000 letters a year from his radio talks alone. Meanwhile, he continued to teach at Union Theological Seminary, continued to turn out popular books (A Guide to Understanding the Bible, On Being a Real Person...