Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mississippi's legislature shelved a bill requiring radio stations to play Dixie at the start and finish of each day's broadcast...
...itself. Its mother guides it out, trains it to keep close to walls, teaches it caution by testing all food for poison. -She warns against dogs, cats and traps. Specialist Nicholes believes that rats have some sort of mental telepathy which enables them to communicate knowledge and to broadcast alarms throughout the rat population...
...correspondent wrote that "the thinness of [MacArthur's] hair is hidden by careful combing." That line never got to the Japanese press. The Armed Forces radio was told by headquarters that such information as the formation of "Veterans Against MacArthur" clubs was "controversial" and should not be broadcast. The same order went to the Army's Stars & Stripes. When the censorship was reported back to the U.S., the ban was lifted. GHQ explained that the general had not known about it, that he had given orders that the Japanese and the Army's press and radio wires...
Radiomen regard Grauer as one of the glibbest ad-libbers on the air. But like all announcers, he has had his share of slips. His favorite printable one was a spoonerism. After guiding the late Carrie Chapman Catt through a difficult broadcast, Grauer turned to her in relief and said, all too clearly, "Thank you, Mrs. Catt, we are deepful grately...
...members of the University Debate Council, J. Philip Bahn '49 and Edward F. Burke '50, argued to a draw with a Rutgers University team Saturday night in a debate on nationalized medicine, broadcast from the studies of WJZ in New York...