Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arriving in Little Rock at 5:30 p. m., the President was motored directly to its unfinished Centennial Stadium, found it pack-jammed with 25,000 people. Facing microphones which carried his voice over the same nationwide hookups which were to broadcast the words of Herbert Hoover at Cleveland an hour later, Franklin Roosevelt delivered the first of a series of set speeches using the events of long-dead history as parables on current politics...
...Admission tickets to Democratic rallies in ball parks and stadia to which Franklin Roosevelt's acceptance speech will be broadcast...
Even so, not a few Nicaraguans were worried lest this private political fight serve as an excuse for another term of U. S. occupation. Accordingly, a Somoza spokesman last week broadcast the plea: "Let us solve our own problems. Let us shed our own blood." U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull replied, to pointed inquiries from Chile and Peru, that the U. S. had no intention of intervening in Nicaragua for the sake of the U. S.'s puny ($13,000,000) investments...
Despite Grouper Hamilton's expert stage-managing, there occurred a slip on Frank Buchman's 58th birthday last week. Arising at 4:45 a.m. for his "quiet time" of listening to God's directions, Founder Buchman looked forward to a day during which he would broadcast to England, the expenses to be paid as a birthday gift from his British followers. But that afternoon as Dr. Buchman was motoring to fulfill this engagement, the gasoline feed line of his automobile clogged, precious minutes passed and finally Grouper H. Kenaston Twitchell read the Founder's words into...
...when the troupe was in its heyday, the personnel of the historic little combination will be the same, although a few extra players may be added. Russell Robinson, Ragas' successor, who composed Margie and Palesteena, will again be the pianist, after four years on the Horn & Hardart (Automat) broadcast. Edwards and Sbarbaro, who have had spasmodic club jobs in Manhattan, are glad to get in regular harness again. Plan is to tour this summer, probably through New England and Pennsylvania. Observed canny Drummer Sbarbaro last week: "With all the old soldiers getting their bonuses there ought...