Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field with the honors of war, called on Legionaries for similar demonstrations. Telegrams at the rate of 250 an hour flooded Washington, 15,000 were delivered at the White House one day. And Father Coughlin who takes credit for having defeated the World Court, tried his influence again, broadcast an appeal to the President to sign the Patman Bill "in the name of the greatest lobby the people ever established. . . . You were called a demagog for uttering the same philosophy which I utter today, for reminding the people of the forgotten...
...with carrying out AAA's program of "balancing" production of cotton, corn, hogs, wheat and other basic commodities. These new powers are for the purpose of letting AAA extend its control over other commodities. AAA answered this charge only in general terms. Said Chester Davis in a broadcast to farmers last month: "Unless the Act can be made fully effective as a national instrument serving the 2,000,000 farmers who grow special crops or milk, then, with support from that group missing, the whole Act is in danger...
...annual convention last autumn the American Bankers Association kept its rebellious members under iron control, with the result that an official peace treaty was signed with the President. Last week, although the ABA officials served notice that they intended to fight the Banking Bill, endorsed in his fireside broadcast only last fortnight, President Roosevelt cheerfully told them that his mind was still open...
...office sat Vice President Miller. But the operator plugged President Gifford in on Dixon, Calif. There a short-wave radio transmitter amplified his voice some millions of times, "sprayed" it over the Pacific. At Java a Dutch station picked up the Gifford voice, blew it up another billion times, broadcast it on to Amsterdam. Under the North Sea it went by cable to London, then Rugby. Sprayed overseas again, it was picked up at Netcong, N. J., flashed back to Manhattan. One quarter-second after President Gifford said, "Hello," Vice President Miller heard him, answered over a reverse circuit. Mindful...
...then on there was "nearly absolute Allied command over all channels of communication and opinion." Sir Gilbert Parker, head of the British bureau "responsible for American publicity." handed out to delighted U. S. correspondents free articles from such noted writers as Kipling, Wells, Galsworthy. Arnold Bennett; distributed propaganda material broadcast to U. S. libraries, educational institutions and periodicals; "was particularly careful to arrange for lectures, letters and articles by pro-Ally Americans rather than by Englishmen." German-atrocity stories spread like tares. A group of U. S. war correspondents (Harry Hansen. Irvin Cobb, John T. McCutcheon...