Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither new King George VI nor any member of the Royal Family sat with Prince Edward during the abdication broadcast from Windsor Castle (see p. 15). His Majesty had become King and Emperor eight hours previously, and immediately dropped into a quiet routine of receiving British home & Dominion statesmen at his home, No. 145 Piccadilly. As Duke of York he aroused only the slightest public interest, but British aristocrats said with particular satisfaction of the Duchess of York, "She is one of us," and a popular knowledge that the late King George V was most fond of their little daughter...
...Archbishop of Canterbury has his way, the stutter will be called a halt. Broadcast he: "When his people listen to the King they will note an occasional momentary hesitation in his speech. ... It need not cause any sort of embarrassment, for it causes none to him who speaks...
...woman darts forward to thrust at the Archbishop's limousine a placard: "ABDICATION MEANS REVOLUTION!" Cinema houses take an official hint, and newsreels of the King & Mrs. Simpson hand-in-handing are suppressed. The official B.B.C. radio station tells prominent King's Men who offer to broadcast that "no time is available," but such commentators as Mr. Vernon Bartlett go unmistakably pro-Baldwin in references to the Sovereign who, for the first time in British history, finds on the air such statements as that he is "erratic." It is represented to His Majesty that the Baldwin Cabinet...
Harvard will uphold the affirmative in a radio debate tomorrow with Middlebury College on the question "Resolved: that the extension of consumers' cooperatives would contribute to the public welfare." The debate will be broadcast over WAAB at 1:30 o'clock...
...gives Martha Raye, the substitute, a chance to be undignified and unladylike to her heart's content. And Bob (Bazooka) Burns overshadows the whole thing with his bucolic wisdom and his knack of getting in where he isn't wanted. Considered as vaudeville rather than as drama, "The Big Broadcast" is quite acceptable entertainment...