Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other members of the "Brain Trust." Their White House instructions were to combine in one measure a broad program for public works to make new jobs and the "partnership" idea for Federal supervision of industrial production, prices, wages and working hours as enunciated by the President in his broadcast fortnight ago. The bill would be the Administration's substitute for the crude null and minimum-wage legislation pending in Congress...
...citizens edged closer to their radios last Sunday as they heard this familiar greeting from the President of the U. S. For the second time Franklin Roosevelt was "reporting" to the country from the White House. Eight weeks prior when "the country was dying by inches" his first broadcast on the banking crisis had been a historic success. His second attempt to clear and steer the public mind on issues of state produced a popular reaction no less favorable. President Roosevelt's speech, simple and sympathetic, was more than a review of his two months in office, more than...
...business meeting it was decided to have a radio debate with one of the English universities next season, probably Oxford. Last year a similar debate was held with Oxford, and was the first debate ever to be broadcast across the ocean. It was also decided to make an attempt to establish intramural debating with a House program...
...Finley was lunching in Manhattan with Y. M. C. A. men. Lord Allenby was in Jerusalem, the city he delivered to the Allies in 1917. He had returned there to dedicate the finest Y. M. C. A. building in the world, to deliver the first radio speech ever internationally broadcast from Palestine...
...soth anniversary of the incorporation of Y. M. C. A.'s International Committee. (Y. M. C. A. now works in 56 lands, with 1,606,376 members and $280,384,093 in property.) Y. M. C. A. luncheons all over the U. S. tuned in on the broadcast, heard Lord Allenby say: ''Here ... is erected an international monument to Peace and Brotherhood. Under its shadow, jarring sectarians may cease from wrangling; fierce passions be tamed; and men's minds be drawn to loftier ideals...