Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rushing things, Dictator Stalin ordered staged and broadcast this week one of his great propaganda trials to which the entire Russian nation is urged to listen in. Hitherto no Old Bolshevik leader against whom even the gravest charges have been proved has ever been executed, but this time Moscow broadly hinted that Zinoviev and Kamenev will be shot...
Such was the story that appeared last week on the front pages of the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, and in many another newspaper. Citizens chuckled throughout the land. Without waiting to check the facts the Republican National Committee broadcast the yarn in their daily press release and embroidered it with verse...
...story of pigs' pie was originally broadcast to various newspapers by the arch-Republican Boston Herald. The Boston Herald received it from Lawrence Thomas Smyth, of the Bangor, Me. Daily News, who got it from John McFaul, an oldtime News correspondent in Calais, Me., who got it from a "farmer over in Perry." Said Newshawk Smyth in Bangor...
Hardly had Nominee Alf Landon's acceptance speech been broadcast (TIME, Aug. 3) than Franklin Roosevelt's ace political pressagent, Charles Michelson, began to plan to put this old political maxim into effect. For the occasion he arranged an hour's nation-wide radio hookup. For the job of demolishing Republican Landon he shrewdly picked six of the President's official inferiors and the Governor's official equals-six Democratic Governors, from six States geographically selected to enfilade Kansas from assorted distances and directions...
...home in Britain, gratitude for what he had said gushed. "I think Lindbergh's speech was wholesome and timely. All honor to him!" wrote London News-Pundit Henry Wickham Steed. "I wonder whether the Nazi authorities have allowed the full report of his speech to be printed and broadcast. . . . Colonel Lindbergh's frank, truthful and courageous words have rendered a notable service to Europe and perhaps to the entire world...