Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...definite plans have not yet been announced by the HAA, football games in the Stadium this fall will be televised by a local station, starting with the Columbia game Saturday. This includes in addition to Columbia, contests with Holy Cross, Dartmouth, Brown and Yale. The games will also be broadcast...
...Nizam's powers were shorn, his ministers were under house arrest, but he would probably salvage his wealth and royal trappings. Kasim Razvi faced a dimmer fate. In a broadcast to his followers on the morning of surrender he said: "This is the last time I shall be speaking to you." Then he disappeared. The next day he was captured by Hyderabad troops. Said he: "I gambled and lost...
This week, as another autumn moon lit up the traditional festival, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek summoned his countrymen to rise against another kind of Tartar in the national household. "We should understand," he cried in a broadcast to the people, "that in addition to the treacherous rebels who are rampant today, speculation, manipulation and high living to the point of lasciviousness on the part of social parasites in our midst are also to blame for our crisis ... It is my intention to wash away these social dregs by opening the floodgates of public conscience and social justice...
Battle of Life. Because "the people we want to reach would be scared away by religion," the new nationwide Episcopal-sponsored program will have no prayers, no sermons, no hymns or Bible reading. It will not be broadcast on Sunday, but on Friday evenings from 8 to 8:30, competing with regular commercial programs. Titled Great Scenes from Great Plays, it will devote nearly the whole half-hour to a drama. The only moral drawn will be a reference to the relevance of religion...
Edgar Kobalc, president of Mutual Broadcasting system, made a fateful decision: Three for the Money, an MBS giveaway show (grand prize: up to $7,000 cash and a trip-for two-anywhere in the world), will be dropped from the network this week. Folksy Ed Kobak claimed that he had had misgivings when the show first went on the air 13 weeks ago. "We never did like the idea of a giveaway show," he explained, "but we're like sheep." He added: "Down in our hearts our conscience bothered us." He was further influenced by the new code...