Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lambert Co. (Listerine) anticipated when it engaged her last autumn (TIME, Nov. 12), Farrar proved to be no ordinary storyteller. Her first broadcast was for the holiday matinee of Hansel und Gretel. But instead of lingering over a plot which every one knows, she chatted informally about the 52-year-old Opera House, candidly admitted that it was a year younger than...
Saar police had plenty on their hands. After German radio stations broadcast charges that the Saar Catholic Party is "in the pay of France," Saar Nazis attacked a Saar Catholic Rally, beat several Catholics senseless. Meanwhile Saar Reds went into action and Saar Nazis soon screamed for police protection, alleged that the Communists had wounded several brownshirts with carving knives...
...Empire radio scandal erupted last week from George V's first "fireside broadcast," delivered by His Majesty in close imitation of the U. S. White House's "just-folksy" technique...
This was all very well, containing as it did the most magnificent understatement ever uttered by His Majesty, but the Empire broadcast also included greetings to King George from a dairy farmer in New Zealand, a lumberjack in the Canadian woods, an Army pensioner in London, a tea merchant on his Indian plantation, et al. Sandwiched in were what the announcer called "an eyewitness description of surf bathing at Bondi Beach" in Australia and "the voices of children romping in the botanical gardens at Melbourne...
...Washington Secretary Frederick J. Libby of the National Council for Prevention of War broadcast this dire prediction: "We shall build naval vessels and airplanes madly on a fictitious war scare which the munitions makers are trumping up. . . . Our shipbuilders, airplane manufacturers and munitions makers are already launching their publicity to reap a rich harvest from the breakdown of the London Naval conversations...