Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said a reporter to Franklin Roosevelt the day after the broadcast: "We thought it was Major Bowes." The President replied that someone else had asked him if it was Mark Sullivan...
Between telling Congress how he proposed to end the Depression and telling the country what he had told Congress, Franklin Roosevelt last week sandwiched in a warning to European dictators against meddling with South America. Said he in a Pan-American Day broadcast to South America, at which his immediate audience consisted of the 20 Pan-American diplomatic missions in Washington...
...Commentator Boake Carter were in turn squelched. Commentator Carter was said to have complained volubly that the Administration had "got" Radiorating General Hugh Johnson for his carping, was now persecuting him. No Administration forced General Johnson from the air nine weeks ago, but cessation of the Grove Bromo Quinine broadcast, on which he appeared, did.* Counter-rumors reported that the President's secretariat, far from "persecuting" Commentator Carter, had used its influence to keep Carter's radio chain and sponsor from bearing down on him lest Carter become a martyr. Fact is, last week Commentator Carter perceptibly softened...
...week getting in on something similar to the Chamberlain-Mussolini Deal (see p. 16). The French Embassy in Rome, journalists learned in Paris, will attempt to get a Daladier-Mussolini Deal along these lines: 1) Italy and France would agree to halt radio propaganda against each other now being broadcast to the peoples of the Near East and North Africa; 2) the Addis...
...cardinal entrained for Rome, there must have rung in his ears the German words of a broadcast from the powerful Vatican radio station, in which the words "worthlessness and faithlessness" were applied to "shepherds" actions" which greatly resembled his own. Although the Vatican insisted that this broadcast, made by an anonymous Jesuit, happened entirely by coincidence, its observations on "political Catholicism" were pat and pointed. "False political Catholicism" the Jesuit defined as an attitude, either of the "simple faithful or officials in public life," which consists in "an exaggerated carefulness of tactics and in a weak adaptation to established...