Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Archbishop of Canterbury followed on Sunday with a remarkable broadcast which in effect rebuked himself and the Archbishop of York for having rehashed the affair of Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson and announced it was time that all Britons stopped making any further reference to it. He then switched into a furious castigation of Soviet Russia and made this glancing reference to birth control: "Many regard the rich results of Science as being all-sufficing. This has brought about a loosening of the ties of marriage and restraint upon the impulses of sex. Well may we ask-'Whither...
...established last week that Edward VIII, a few hours before reading his Abdication broadcast, asked his three closest remaining attendants to accompany him to Austria, and they all gave the Duke quiet, steady-eyed refusals. His personal private secretary of 15 years, Sir Godfrey Thomas, an astute Welshman with a standing (and perhaps a future) in the British diplomatic service, simply "vanished." His personal bodyguard, Chief Inspector David Storier, vainly tried at Scotland Yard to get let off from guarding the Duke of Windsor. Both Mrs. Simpson and the Duke separately tried to retain the services of Chauffeur George Stanley...
...Highest-priced labor leader in the U. S., President Petrillo draws $500 a week, directs an organization that handles $250,000 a year. Most of this comes from the 8,500 members who pay yearly dues of $16. "Standbys" (commercial radio musicians) are assessed $17 for each broadcast. Out-of-town musicians have to pay up when they play in Chicago. In 1933 his organization was prosperous enough for President Petrillo to build a $600,000 two-story building, to panel his office in red cedar, carpet it with a rich Oriental rug. Members of his organization pay their dues...
...Once again British censorship was defeated, even before His Master's Voice Ltd. were squelched. Within a few hours after the broadcast, Manhattan's mammoth Macy's department store was selling excellent records at $1 each, shipping them on request to England as forbidden fruit...
...tenderly prodded Minnie's belly. As the visible audience of 400 listened raptly, out over a national network went faint, wavering chirps and trills. It sounded as much like a cricket as like a canary, but that Minnie really sang there was no doubt. After the broadcast a cage was fashioned of glass and cardboard, its bottom strewn with strips of cloth and paper for mousy nesting. Press and newsreel photographers crowded around, snapped perky, self-assured Minnie until midnight. A Chicago hotel matched the Zoo's offer for her. Manager Allred held out for $1,000, hoped...