Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hankow, the Chinese de facto capital, last week appeared Miss Agnes Smedley, a U. S. author who was first widely heard of during the kidnapping of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Jan. 4, 1937 et seq.). At that time when the Communists needed someone to broadcast their propaganda in English from Sian, she was put on the air. Fond of dressing like a Red Army soldier with red, five-pointed star in cap, Agnes Smedley announced last week that she had hurt her back, therefore would write a book on the Chinese Communists instead of marching further with them against...
...admittedly objectionable character of these features is, in our opinion, attributable to the lack of a proper conception of the high standards required for a broadcast program intended for reception in the homes, schools, automobiles, religious, social and economic institutions, as well as clubs, hotels, trains and other places, reaching in the aggregate a much larger number of people daily than any other means of communication and carrying its message to men, women and children of all ages...
...Commission has decided to take no further action at this time than the writing of this letter in condemnation of the program. However, upon application for renewal of the licenses of the stations carrying this broadcast, the Commission will take under consideration this incident along with all other evidence tending to show whether or not a particular licensee has conducted his station in the public interest...
Owen will be interviewed by Theodare Frazier '41, first member of the Freshman class to appear on the air for a Guardian broadcast...
...lectures will be broadcast over the shortwave station WIXAL, a non-commercial station in Boston...