Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national broadcast Senator Burton K. Wheeler cried: "Every labor leader, every farmer and every progressive-minded citizen in the United States would have been shocked and protested from the housetops if President Harding, President Coolidge or President Hoover had even intimated that they wanted to increase the Supreme Court so as to make it subservient to their wishes. The progressives would have said, and rightly so, that it was fundamentally unsound, morally wrong and an attempt to set up a dictatorship in this country...
...biggest funeral since Lenin's" was promptly got under way for "Sergo"-Stalin's nickname for Ordzhonikidze. Other programs were switched off and Soviet radio stations broadcast elaborate eulogies of Sergo. Accompanied by an endless dirge, a solemn death watch over the body was begun, the Dictator himself joining in a guard which was changed every few hours, maintained day & night, with Big Reds clamoring for the honor of standing at the four corners of the bier while tens of thousands shuffled past...
...prove to the Kuomintang, just as it was previously supposed to have proved to Kidnapper Chang, that the Kidnappee-Dictator never was a sell-out to Japan but in his daily thoughts and deeds is a true, brave Chinese. Dictator & Mme Chiang made their first joint world radio broadcast last week, she in flawless Eng lish, he in Chinese. Static made it diffi cult to gather more than that they are still strong for their famed "New Life Movement," a form of Christian Chinese Puritanism...
...Oxford, Viscount Grey of Fallodon, led in the formation of an Oxford Society with practical aims identical to those of a U. S. alumni association. Not until last month, however, did Oxford stretch out its ancient hand in an actual Oxford Appeal for funds. Last week, in a transatlantic broadcast, "Great Tom" of Christ Church solemnly tolled and the University's Chancellor, Lord Halifax, extended a feeler on "Oxford as an Institution...
Concluding the first month of transmitting regular classroom lectures and other University activities over station WIXAL, Memorial Church service was broadcast for the first time yesterday morning at 11 o'clock. The Rev. Henry S. Coffin, president of Union Theological Seminary, of New York City, conducted the service, which was broadcast on a wave-length of 15.35 megacycles...