Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Knowledge of what the verses were all about might never have been spread but for the alertness of a Manhattan Jesuit, Rev. Wilfrid Parsons, editor-in-chief of America. From acquaintances who heard the broadcast he learned that the verses were only part of a long poem called...
...offered a number of explanations to the effect that someone should have been more vigilant. Father Parsons protested to the Federal Communications Commission, which started the motions of a routine investigation. Sixteen Catholic & non-Catholic Congressmen excitedly demanded that the Commission summarily revoke the licenses of all stations that broadcast the Mexican program...
...three solid days and nights of prayer, 140 successive masses, one of which was celebrated by Bishop James Edward Kearney of Salt Lake City. More & more pilgrims arrived, sleeping on the open ground, until 100,000 gathered around the Grotto for the final mass by Cardinal Pacelli, with benediction broadcast from the Vatican by the Pope. Object of the whole triduum was Peace, according to the Holy Father's letter, "to look at and pray to the Madonna to intercede with God in order that the palm of peace may be bestowed again on mankind and that a dawn...
Beaten by ballots, Hearst's Neylan, a tenacious, fighting Irishman, was barely home in San Francisco from the convention last year when he started to load his guns for a return battle in 1935. In June he broadcast a voluminous letter to all AP members inviting them to help him force the AP management to rid itself of Wirephoto. Alternatives: drop it entirely or turn it back to American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to be operated by the latter for all the U. S. Press, with losses guaranteed by the four existing big picture agencies (AP, International, Acme, Wide World...
Next week American Telephone & Telegraph Co. will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a dignified one-hour radio broadcast. In Washington, however, the new Federal Communications Commission is preparing to mark A. T. & T.'s golden jubilee in livelier fashion. Armed with a $750,000 appropriation, the Commission is already at work on an investigation of the telephone industry for the benefit of the U. S. Senate, which discovered to its amazement that A. T. & T. had never been put under the Congressional microscope. President Walter Sherman Gifford says there are no skeletons in his closets, and last week...