Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cost 2,000 diners $50 per plate- $5 for food and $45 for the Party's campaign chest. When he had eaten tomato stuffed with lobster, diamondbacked terrapin soup, breast of capon, hearts of palm salad and other things, the 32nd President of the U. S. arose and broadcast as follows on the 7th President...
...sofa, a cigaret holder were named after the piece. At the St. Paul Hotel in St. Paul, Minn., Bandmaster Bernie Cummins reported he had received more requests for it than for any other number. So did Bandmaster Ozzie Nelson at Manhattan's Lexington Hotel. Both NBC and Columbia broadcasting chains, at death grips with the potent music publishers, announced that the tune, which was unrestricted, was the most popular on the air. Station WHN played it 28 times on one all-night broadcast in answer to 428 appeals. Station WBNX prepared to broadcast the song in Yiddish, Italian, Spanish...
...throughout the last session, uprose to request unanimous consent for the House to recess subject to the call of the Speaker so that President Roosevelt might deliver his address on the State of the Union to a joint session of Congress that night. That address was also to be broadcast at the best radio hour...
...Congress,* Republicans had sent up a terrific squawk. Shrieked Republican Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher: "Politics!" To secure unanimous consent to reconvene, the Democratic House leadership had to pay the Republicans a small price: a GOPhilippic by tubby, pudding-jowled Minority house Leader Bertrand Hollis ("Bert") Snell, which was also broadcast. Swelling with professional resentment at the President's extraordinary program, the New Yorker, who shepherds the forlorn 104 Republicans of the House, cried: "Why this departure from our former dignified practice? Does anyone maintain there is any special emergency whereby we should change the rules and precedents that have...
Pearson & Allen. Washington's chit-chat columnists, Drew Pearson & Robert S. Allen, who broadcast a Merry-Go-Round of the Air, invited radio listeners to send in straw votes. Their question: "Should President Roosevelt be re-elected?" Their answers: 70% "yes"; 30% "no." Women were 3-to-1 for Roosevelt; men 2-to-1. Some 90% of the voters explained their reasons. Of the Roosevelt voters, 38% declared they liked the man, did not agree with all his policies-a fact that partly explains the difference between the Pearson-Allen and the Digest returns. Of those opposed to Roosevelt...