Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible, every Sunday and every holy day. Six years ago the Congregation of Sacred Rites ruled that this religious duty cannot be fulfilled by listening to mass by radio. Last week Pope Pius XI found reason to suspend this rule. He granted permission to prelates in Rightist Spain to broadcast mass, so that Catholics in Leftist Spain, where there is no public worship, need not be deprived of religious service...
Most interested listeners when J. Emory Duskin, onetime head of Alabama's real estate association, broadcast from Manhattan on Sanka Coffee Co.'s We, the People program were 1,300 convicts gathered around the radio in the model dairy of Montgomery, Ala.'s Kilby prison. Reason: Mr. Duskin, their colleague, under a 36 to 60-year sentence for borrowing 850,000 from his former clients, but on parole since last July, had been granted permission by Governor Bibb Graves to fly to Manhattan unguarded for the broadcast. The keynote of his speech: "The most important thing...
...With an offer of $4,000 per broadcast RCA brought out of retirement the 70-year-old former conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, (1 Leopold Stokowski, 2 Galliano Masini, 3 Jose Iturbi, 4 Arturo Toscanini, 5 Walter Damrosch...
Some of the coming debates are those with M.I.T., Middlebury, and William Jewell, and intra-Council exhibitions before the Roslindale and Newton Kiwanis. Debates with Vassar, Brown, and Williams will probably be broadcast...
...luck would have it, this week's pictures are poor. Like all of its predecessors, the "Big Broadcast," 1938 model, is a conglomeration of music, humor and specialty acts strung together by the merest phantom of a story. Hollywood's one and only William Clark Fields is sometimes funny but more often clumsy and silly as he struts about barking wise cracks and chewing his large cigar. At his best in a very unconventional game of golf, he provides the film with a few good moments; but when he is gone, there is little left. To be sure, here...