Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That night she and her fellow wanderers slept in Madison, Ind., next night in the Blackstone at Chicago. There she delivered a Simmons Bed broadcast, lunched with Rufus Dawes & wife, went to the Fair, smiled her broadest at newshawks when she told them: "Please don't feel badly if I have to evade you, because that's what I'm going to do from now on. This is not an official visit. When I'm with the President it's different." Bobbing up five hours later in front of the Fair's Administration Building, Mrs. Roosevelt was asked by reporters...
...telling involved such a rehash of queer Captain Roehm's unnatural orgies that next day Austrian Heimwehr Commander Prince von Starhemberg retorted: "The Austrian Government cannot remain unmoved when a version of events is broadcast over German radios which is the most unappetizing and dirtiest thing ever broadcast in the German language. Naziism is a version of Bolshevism! I know the present leaders of Germany personally. I know they are incapable of erecting a German system in Germany. Austrians, stand firm! Austria is destined to be the savior of Germanism...
Five months after they introduced their feature as a sustaining program at $100 a week apiece, Impersonators Gosden and Correll signed up with Pepsodent toothpaste to broadcast over a national NBC hookup six nights a week for $100,000 a year. Amos and Andy moved to New York's Harlem and became a national phenomenon from...
...York time. The country had learned to use Andy's word "regusted." The Secretary of State of Colorado and 100,000 other listeners in the West plainly stated their "regust" at the change because they could not get home in time for the broadcast. The "Amos and Andy Rebellion," which seriously threatened Pepsodent with a boycott, was only quelled when Gosden and Correll agreed to broadcast twice nightly, at 7 and 11. By the end of their first year with Pepsodent, Amos and Andy, according to Bell Telephone Co., were responsible for a $50% drop in telephone calls during...
...authors missed three broadcasts, two when they went to Hollywood to make Check and Double Check in 1930, one when a general SOS silenced all stations. In response to a public demand, the last missing installment was published in newspapers. Gosden and Correll have broadcast twice from sickbeds, once from a booth at the Chicago Stadium when they were attending a prizefight. In their annual swings around the country to make personal appearances in cinemansions, Amos and Andy take to the air from their authors' dressing room...