Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many years the question of whether traffic court proceedings should be broadcast has been hotly debated. Last week, speaking against the practice before the Chicago Civil Liberties Committee, Municipal Judge Edward B. Casey presented some pertinent figures: In one court, of those tried when proceedings were not broadcast, 31.6% were convicted. Of those tried during broadcasts, 87.5% were convicted. Average fine when there was no broadcast was $10.63, but when the judge had the world listening in, average fines were...
Easy Money is a two-and-a-half-hour afternoon broadcast over WPG (Atlantic City). Presenting riddles at five-minute intervals, the station pays $1 to the listener who is first to telephone the correct answer. Innumerable wise contestants were jumping the starting gun by dialing the first four digits of WPG's number, snapping the final digit as soon as they had the solution. Until the wires were cleared by mass attack on the fifth digit, that trick automatically put busy signals on the ten telephones with numbers beginning with the same four digits. Because of the oddities...
...recent Macmillan survey, western book sellers picked Reader's Guide broadcasts as most influential swayer of readers' habits. Book sales react automatically to Jackson's by no means low-brow judgments. He damned Hervey Allen's Action at Aquila, Charles Morgan's Sparkenbroke and Lloyd Douglas' Home for Christmas out of West Coast best-seller lists while they were doing well throughout the rest of the country. His one conspicuous failure was Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. A full broadcast of dispraise was unavailing against Californian determination...
...Fields (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC-Red) guest-stars with Nelson Eddy to renew his famous Charlie McCarthy feud for a single Chase & Sanborn broadcast...
Into a microphone in Omaha, Neb. last week, Methodist Bishop Garfield Bromley Oxnam read the ritual of Holy Communion. In 1,500 churches in Nebraska and Iowa, loudspeakers broadcast those words while 50,000 Methodists knelt and partook of the Lord's Supper. Bishop Oxnam explained that this broadcast, first of its kind, would enable Methodists to take Communion in small outlying churches whose pastors, not fully ordained, are not privileged to give it. Thus Bishop Oxnam's broadcast was a logical extension of a modern Protestant idea: that the minister's work may well be widened...