Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King Edward some weeks ago pained the Cabinet by gratuitously announcing that he will not deliver a fireside broadcast on Christmas as King George used to do (TIME, Jan. 5, 1935). Last week efforts to persuade Queen Mary to fireside on Christmas brought an intimation of refusal from Her Majesty. When it recently became known that she had suffered a slight chill. Lloyd's again raised their already sky-high insurance rate against postponement of the Coronation. The death or grave illness of the Queen would, of course, upset all Coronation plans. Last week Her Majesty's health...
Beginning modestly with a simple dance number from The Big Broadcast, the Orchestra got warmer on Berry's syncopated satire of William Tell, warmer still when Jack Teagarden rose and blared trickily on his trombone. Critic-Composer Deems Taylor, hired as oral annotator of the program, proposed that the jazz concert be considered "a vacation from culture," warned: "You have heard scandalous things but worse are coming...
...Broadcast of 1937" begins at the University its third local run, there-by missing its last chance of being correctly dated, and bearing testimony to the speed which in the field of entertainment it describes. The picture is an abundant offering to those who spend their time and enthusiasm oscillating between the moviehouse and the radio. For besides the many personages dragged more or less directly into the plot, there are such purely gratuitous features as Benny Goodman and his orchestra, and Stokowski, the frenzied genius who seems to tell his musicians exactly what he wants with his violently contorted...
...used over their networks. On Aug. 25 on invitation I talked before the Montreal Rotary Club for 30 minutes about Syphilis, using the word several times. The Rotary Club received many comments from radio listeners both in U. S. and Canada. The talk was not censored before being broadcast due to Columbia's faith that Rotary would not broadcast anything offensive or objectional...
Bitterly resenting the fact that the defense was not given a hearing before the charges were broadcast to the Press, James M. Hutton Sr., head of the 50-year-old Cincinnati firm, cracked back in a flat denial: "It [the stock] went up purely because of the ancient law of supply and demand that has been in effect much longer than the law under which the Securities Commission operates...