Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unlikely but the U. S. should nonetheless keep out of entangling alliances, and totalitarianism will get you if you don't watch out.* In Bangor, Me., New Hampshire's Senator Bridges called on the country to put an end to "Roosevelt Constitutional tyranny." In a Washington broadcast, Idaho's Borah warned the U. S. not to be moved by "the din of screeching and incoherent propaganda" into lining up with European democracies against totalitarian governments. And in Newark, N. J. Republican National Committee Chairman John D. M. Hamilton spoke at a banquet in honor of New Jersey...
...very powerful radio transmitter of the Papal State went on the air in German with a broadcast heard all over Greater Germany and taken by most listeners to be a condemnation of Cardinal Innitzer for having yielded to force, combined with an injunction to Catholics that in the plebiscite they should vote according to their consciences rather than Innitzer. An official Vatican translation of this broadcast into Italian was supplied to journalists by Papal dignitaries...
...religious denomination may buy broadcasting time on the two big radio networks. Why? Because, in general, the chains fight shy of religious controversy; because, in particular, Columbia Broadcasting System was embarrassed seven years ago by the rabble-rousing rise of blatant Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin as a paying speaker on its hookup. Instead of such firebrands Columbia today maintains an innocuous interdenominational Church of the Air, while National Broadcasting Co. gives time to the Federal Council of Churches and the Catholic Hour run by the National Council of Catholic Men. Judged by fan mail, however, none of these programs...
Under Ireland's new constitution (TIME, Dec. 27) its former President, U. S.-born Eamon de Valera, becomes Prime Minister. During a coast-to-coast broadcast from Hollywood last week, John McCormack, famed Irish-born tenor, offered himself as a Presidential candidate to succeed de Valera-providing 1) a naturalized citizen of the U. S. is eligible for the position and 2) the de Valera and Cosgrave opposition parties favor him. Said he: "Many of my friends in Ireland have written me to throw my hat in the ring...
...game on Saturday will take place in the Stadium starting at 2:45 o'clock, and a big crowd is expected. The last half of the game will broadcast over WEEL...