Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...though wetly during the 26-mile drive through Canada's wheat city. Dignitaries were warned against too hearty handshaking, for the King had pinched two fingers in a train door. It was Queen Victoria's Birthday-Empire Day-and the King, after listening to professions of loyalty broadcast from every colony and Dominion of the Empire, replied with his best speech of the trip...
...announced that henceforth it will issue regular licenses permitting short-wavers to broadcast sponsored programs. Instead of cheering, the big short-wavers grumbled as they inspected the gift horse's mouth. Reason: they fear that sponsored programs would be unpopular abroad, that their friend the State Department would then sponsor a Government radio station, that a Government station might soon become a rival at home as well as abroad...
...program will be: Cimarosa, two choruses from "Il Matrimonio Segreto;" Bach, "Jesu, Who Didst Ever Guide Me;" Bach, "The Lamb That Was Slain For Us;" Paine, choruses from "The Birds" of Aristophanes; Dvorak, arrangements of two Czechoslovakian folksongs; and Sullivan, Choruses from "Iolanthe." The concert will be broadcast internationally by the non-commercial short wave station W1XAL, of Boston, on 6.04 and 11.73 megacycles...
...exile and prison, they were masters of history who misread history, who banked on an international revolution that did not occur, and who called in the sonorous and yet biting language of Marx to an unlistening world proletariat. Seizing the Petrograd radio while the war still raged, they broadcast frantically for peace: "To all! To all! To all!" They summoned a congress of the Third International, sent out a manifesto which began: "Europe is in flames; the wolves of capitalism howl among the ruins!" They dropped their rigorous membership requirements only when Denikin was marching on Moscow, when membership, involving...
...that unemployment will again exceed its "normal" quota of 10,000,000. When the market is down the New Deal begins to look for new brands of unemployment reducers and market restorers. Last week, it was obviously twirling the dial in search of the right wavelength on which to broadcast a new offensive against renewed depression...