Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S otherwise meritorious "Ink & Air" (TIME, Oct. 29) contains one absurdity, which becomes apparent when the unequivocal "If Radio also broadcast complete news, many a listener would not bother with newspapers" is paraphrased to read, "If TIME broadcast complete March of TIME, many a listener would not bother with TIME...
...Complete" news broadcast, including the customary newspaper filler, would be as thoroughly annoying to radio listeners as a broadcast of the "complete" contents of TIME. No thinking radio news agency wants to broadcast "complete" news any more than TIME wants a "cover-to-cover" broadcast...
...December he would broadcast a "fireside" talk to the nation laying down his relief and agricultural policies for national acceptance before Congress assembled. Undersecretary of State Phillips was making new overtures to Premier Bennett of Canada. The New Deal Congress would be expected this time to approve the St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty. The White House was very definitely against currency inflation...
Only setback to the headlong Long week came from the U. S. Supreme Court. After General Samuel Tilden Ansell had counseled a Senatorial investigation into the Long political machine in 1932, Senator Long broadcast by mail circulars declaring that the onetime Judge Advocate General had been "practically run out of the Army for fraud." General Ansell started a $500,000 libel suit. Senator Long claimed Constitutional immunity. Last week the Supreme Court ruled that a Congressman's remarks on the floor are privileged but he could not escape service of a civil summons...
...with him and against the politicians on his project of reforming the Constitution. For days delegations had been arriving to tell Great Little Gaston how right he had been in his radio appeals a la Roosevelt. Wrote that hard-boiled Paris political observer "Pertinax" (André Geraud): "By his broadcast appeal Doumergue has deeply moved France...