Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant will preside at the assembly which will be broadcast by the National Broadcasting Company from 8 to 9 o'clock. Samuel E. Morison '08, professor of History and Historian of the Tercentenary, will speak on "Harvard Past" to correspond with the address President Conant will deliver on March 20, 1936, President Eliot's birthday, on "Harvard Present and Future." The Glee Club will sing...
...Farnsworth cold-cathode dissector tube "high-definition" images equal in clarity to home cinema and 6 by 8 inches in size can be transmitted. Blond, young Philo Taylor Farnsworth, who rose from obscurity with the help of San Francisco bankers, has leased his system to England and Germany where broadcasting is in government hands. Currently television is regularly broadcast from Berlin...
Henry Ford, who had paid $100,000 for radio-broadcast rights, changed seats in his family box to avoid photographers. Babe Ruth sat in the Press box with a white carnation in his buttonhole. In Detroit, Matthew Golden, of Old Saybrook, Conn., proudly announced that he was 72 and had not missed a game since 1903. In Chicago, one George Alms slept on the sidewalk in a tar-paper bag to keep his place at the head of a ticket line. It was the "World Series," between the Chicago Cubs and the Detroit Tigers, for the professional baseball championship...
...expected that there will be several debates after Christmas, most of which will be broadcast. One of these will be with the university of Melbourne, coming for the occasion to this country from Australia...
Finally, in the packjammed Stadium, 20,000 Catholics formed their ranks into a reproduction of a great monstrance (altar vessel to hold the sacred Host). Followed benediction of the Blessed Sacrament by Cardinal Hayes, which was preceded by a radio broadcast by the Pope, speaking in rapid, inaudible Latin and frequently fading out entirely. Later, Catholics learned that Pius XI had said...