Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Station WQAM set up to make the broadcast immediately preceding President-elect Roosevelt's arrival at the park the crew that was handling the public address for the city decided that instead of trying to use their own microphone for the public address system that they would pick up Station WQAM broadcast on a receiver and put it out over the public address system in the park. At the time no objections were seen to this arrangement...
...broadcast proceeded satisfactorily until the shots were fired and this was picked up by the Station, reproduced on the public address, as well as shouts "Get that man" etc. Inasmuch as there were some 25,000 people in the crowd, including the usual percentage of women and children, it required some rather fast thinking to decide whether or not to proceed with the broadcast and create a panic, which no doubt would have resulted in accidents and deaths as the result of a stampede, or whether to take some steps to quiet the crowd, as there...
...Asked the New York Evening Post last week: "Is it fair, as the Government did in the Al Capone case, to arrest [Mitchell] for one offense in order to punish him for another?" The New York Police last week broadcast a descriptive circular for the arrest of Racketeer Arthur ("'Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer who also was wanted for violation of Federal Income...
...Proceedings of the U. S. Congress have been broadcast on special occasions-President Hoover's speech on Washington's Birthday, 1932; the Coolidge Memorial service last January: the first day of this year's special session. Plans are afoot, but strongly opposed, to install permanent broadcasting equipment in both House end Senate...
...bitter wrangling as plan after plan for bank-opening was proposed, dissected, discarded. But when the final decision was reached early last week, Detroit was in an uproar. Police Commissioner James K. Watkins led the opposition, crying: "Your city is being sold out from under your feet!" At his broadcast appeal, a flood of protest telegrams hit Washington, just as they had at almost every other proposal (TIME, March 27). Secretary of the Treasury Woodin asked Detroit's spellbinding radio priest, Father Charles Coughlin, to defend the plan.* More telegrams hit Washington, bringing the total to some...