Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...verbal battles. Interest thereafter declined steadily and the turnouts for debates in the middle twenties--even today--taxed the heart of the most courageous orator. Realizing the problem the officers of the Council and the director inaugurated an ambitious program of radio debates. The first long distance broadcast was in 1928 with Oxford. Since then there has been almost yearly trans-Atlantic discussions. There was one this year, and in addition a week ago the longest broadcast debate in history was held with the University of Hawaii. Three clashes of smaller magnitude occurred some time ago with the Knights...
...Symphony Orchestra will accompany the Glee Club in three of its four numbers and will be conducted by Arthur Fielder. The program will be broadcast locally...
...diplomat whose death may mean a war. Following the clue he discovers in the note, Lawrence goes to Wapping, tiptoes into a deserted church, finds himself trapped by a fat smiling monster (Lorre) who orders the little girl brought in. The company sit down to listen to a broadcast of an Albert Hall concert at whose crescendo the anarchists' triggerman will fire his revolver. Good shot: Mrs. Lawrence, in the audience at Albert Hall, watching a gunbarrel emerge slowly from a curtain...
Said Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in a radio broadcast, of her troubles in keeping the White House: "Pipes will leak at frequent intervals and rats and mice like old buildings, regardless of tradition. Two friends of mine, sitting on the South Porch at breakfast one summer morning, tried to reassure themselves that a squirrel ran across the floor and refused to admit until they were safely upstairs that they had seen a large...
Visiting Washington last week, the Right Honorable Alderman Alfred Byrne, Lord Mayor of Dublin, sat down to listen to a radio broadcast of the 97th running of the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree. A reporter asked him who he thought would win. Lord Mayor Byrne called for pencil & pad, puffed out his cheeks, wrote down his selections: 1, Reynoldstown; 2, Blue Prince; 3, Thomond II. The announcer said: "They...